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How much power should the CIA
have?
By Tabassum Zakaria (Front
Row Washington)
Submitted at 8/25/2009 2:33:38 PM
In the alphabet soup
of government national security
agencies, the letters CIA seem to
be sinking.
The latest blow to the spy agency
was the attorney general launching
an investigation into interrogation
abuses and President Barack
Obama has decided that the
interrogation of terrorism suspects
will be taken out of the hands of
the CIA and put into the control of
a newly-created group that will be
housed at the FBI and report to the
White House.
Some intelligence experts say the
CIA didn’t want to do the high-
value detainee interrogations
anyway.
Since the 9-11 attacks eight
Counselors on hand for
grieving Texas students
(AP)
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years ago, the United States is still
trying to figure out what balance
of power it wants in intelligence.
The CIA is supposed to dig out
secrets to save the United States
from national security disasters. In
years past it was criticized for
being too risk-averse and critics of
the investigation into interrogation
abuses say it will make the spy
agency too risk-averse again.
The DNI (Director of National
Intelligence), created after the
Sept. 11 attacks, took over the job
of overseeing all the intelligence
agencies from the CIA director.
This year there was a
bureaucratic skirmish between the
DNI and the CIA director after the
DNI put in writing that there could
be times when the DNI’s
representative in foreign countries
would be someone other than the
CIA station chief.
Prosecutor to talk with
clergy about slain pastor
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That dispute went to the White
House for mediation.
ABCNews reported this week
speculation that CIA Director
Leon Panetta had threatened to
quit, which the agency vigorously
denied. “The ABC story is wrong,
inaccurate, bogus, and false,” CIA
spokesman George Little says.
Some CIA watchers are betting
on a Panetta exit early next year.
But then President Barack Obama
would have to convince someone
to take a job that seems to end up
being a political punching bag.
Should the CIA have
more oversight, more control over
its operations, or is the balance just
right?
Photo credit: Reuters/Jason Reed
(Obama and Panetta walking out
of CIA headquarters)
Stanford Team Readies Solar Car for Aussie Race
By Chuck Squatriglia (Wired
Top Stories)
LibertyNewsprint.com U.S.
Watch out for the quiet
ones: Bernanke 1,
Summers 0
By Tabassum Zakaria (Front He took risks as a young adult,
Row Washington) leaving the known of South
Submitted at 8/25/2009 11:08:22 AM Carolina for the unknown of
Harvard where he recounts, “I
Watch out for the quiet ones in took in the scene, so foreign to my
the War of the Wonks (OK so experience, and I said to myself,
we’re being a bit dramatic). ‘What have I done?’”
Mild-mannered Ben Bernanke Whatever he was doing, it
gets to keep his five-star financial worked. He ended up teaching
job as Federal Reserve Chairman, economics at Princeton. And he’s
winning out over speculation that b e e n r e c o g n i z e d f o r h i s
President Barack Obama was industriousness with a bit of
thinking about replacing him with Interstate highway named after
Larry Summers, known among him.
other things for his outsized ego. He’s very interested in the
Delving into the past of the grey- international — we hear he likes
beard, here are some clues about B r i t i s h f i c t i o n l i k e a u t h o r s
what propelled him to become the A n t h o n y T r o l l o p e a n d P G
nation’s economic engineer — a Wodehouse. And the domestic —
job he managed to hold on to he’s a big fan of baseball.
despite a national unemployment Bernanke also drinks Diet Dr
rate approaching 10 percent. Pepper and Diet Coke (we’re not
Bernanke was a bit of a rebel as quite sure of the meaning of that,
a child, evading work at the family but hey it is the Fed we’re talkin’
drug store on Main Street in about).
Dillon, South Carolina, to read Put it all together and voila! It
comic books, as he revealed when produces a Fed Chairman.
accepting the “Order of the
Palmetto” from his hometown.
Stanford's entry in the World
Solar Challenge is as cool as it is
hot.
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Kennedy dies of cancer budget trump vacation -
at 77 for a bit
By Deborah Charles (Front midyear budget updates.
By Deborah Charles (Front of healthcare reform — the Row Washington) The reports are expected to show
Row Washington) signature issue of Obama’s
Submitted at 8/25/2009 4:50:30 AM the government will spend a record
presidency. His presence
Submitted at 8/26/2009 5:00:57 AM
on Capitol Hill, particularly over
$1.6 trillion more than it collects
Two days after arriving in this year and nearly double its
Sen. Kennedy’s
Focus in Washington turned to the past few month during fierce
memories of Edward Kennedy, the debate over Obama’s costly reform
Martha’s Vineyard, President outstanding debt over the next 10 notable speeches
Barack Obama is taking a break years.
third longest serving U.S. senator, plan, was sorely missed. from his vacation to make some The grim fiscal picture could By Adam Pasick (Front Row
who died late Tuesday night after a Kennedy was also a critical news: he will announce that he is provide fodder for opponents of Washington)
15-month battle with brain cancer. supporter of Obama’s during his nominating Ben Bernanke to a Obama’s costly plan to overhaul Submitted at 8/26/2009 5:46:19 AM
Friends, former colleagues and presidential candidacy and his second term as chairman of the the healthcare system.
people who never him were unexpected appearance at the Federal Reserve. The death of Sen. Edward
So why is Obama interrupting Kennedy prompted Politico to
offering words of praise for the Democratic Convention last year Investors have given Bernanke, h i s v a c a t i o n t o a n n o u n c e
man who took the helm of one of energized the crowd even more as whose current term expires on Jan. Bernanke’s renomination? Does he compile a list of some of his best
America’s most fabled political he gave a rousing speech in 31, 2010, high marks and had hope to inject a sense of continuity and most notable speeches.
families after two older brothers — support of change and Obama. w i d e l y e x p e c t e d h i s and stability by erasing doubt over Here is a selection, with video
President John Kennedy and For the second day in a row, reappointment. found on YouTube:
who might lead the Fed? 1968 Robert Kennedy eulogy:
Senator Robert Kennedy — were Obama is scheduled to interrupt But the announcement is For more Reuters political news,
assassinated. his Martha’s Vineyard vacation to being made earlier than expected click here. 1980 concession speech at the
“An important chapter in our make a statement to the media. and comes not just during Democratic National Convention:
Photo credit: REUTERS/Jason 1987 Robert Bork Supreme
history has come to an end,” said This time, it’s expected to be about Obama’s family vacation but also Reed (Obama and friend Eric
President Barack Obama. “Our Kennedy. on the day that the White House Whitaker wave as they golf on Court confirmation hearing:
country has lost a great leader, For more Reuters political news, Office of Management and Budget Martha’s Vineyard) 2008 Endorsing Barack Obama:
who picked up the torch of his click here. and the non-partisan Congressional 2008 Democratic Convention
fallen brothers and became the Photo credit: REUTERS/Jason
greatest United States senator of Reed (Kennedy reacts after Obama
Budget Office both release their Aug. 26, 1346: First
our time.” signs Edward M. Kennedy Serve Cannon Fired in Battle,
Kennedy was a staunch advocate America Act in April) Maybe
Cash for Clunkers: the day after By Tony Long (Wired Top
Stories)
By Ed Stoddard (Front Row reimbursements under the program Pirotte, who talks about Submitted at 8/25/2009 5:00:00 PM

Washington) and the low inventories that have inventories.

English cannon prove a nasty
Submitted at 8/25/2009 2:37:25 PM followed in its wake. Government and industry
(PHOTO: A clunker vehicle sits officials say they do not expect the surprise for the French at the
O n e o f t h e m o s t p o p u l a r in a parking lot during the last day auto rebate program to be renewed Battle of Crecy. Whether this is the
programs brought in by the of the “Cash For Clunkers” auto in the immediate future, even first use of cannon in warfare is
administration of President Barack rebate program at Courtesy though it has been popular with debatable, but it was a first for
Obama, “cash for clunkers”, which Chevrolet dealership in Phoenix, consumers and is considered a these guys.
offered rebates of up to $4,500 to A r i z o n a , A u g u s t 2 4 , 2 0 0 9 . genuine economic stimulus at a
trade in older gas guzzlers, R E U T E R S / J o s h u a L o t t ) time when the nation is in
wrapped up on Monday. Fort Worth, talking about his
See the two video clips below. recession.
Some auto dealers are concerned The first is of Cliff Johnson, concerns. The other is from his
a b o u t t h e s l o w p a c e o f president of Texas Motors Ford in new vehicle director, Jeremy
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Sen. Edward Kennedy, 77, dies after cancer battle (AP)
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HYANNIS PORT, Mass. – Sen.
Edward M. Kennedy of
Massachusetts, the last surviving
brother in an enduring political
dynasty and one of the most
influential senators in history, died
Tuesday night at his home on Cape
Cod after a yearlong struggle with
brain cancer. He was 77.
In nearly 50 years in the Senate,
Kennedy, a liberal Democrat,
served alongside 10 presidents his
brother John Fitzgerald Kennedy
among them compiling an
impressive list of legislative
achievements on health care, civil
rights, education, immigration and
more.
In a brief statement to reporters
at his rented vacation home on
Martha's Vineyard, Mass.,
President Barack Obama eulogized
Kennedy as one of the "most
accomplished Americans" in
history and a man whose work in
Congress helped give millions new
opportunities.
"Including myself," added the
nation's first black president.
Kennedy's only run for the White
House ended in defeat in 1980,
when President Jimmy Carter
turned back his challenge for the
party's nomination. More than a
quarter-century later, Kennedy
handed then- Sen. Barack Obama
an endorsement at a critical point
in the campaign for the
Democratic presidential
nomination, explicitly likening the
young contender to President
Kennedy.
To the American public,
Kennedy was best known as the
last surviving son of America's
most glamorous political family,
father figure and, memorably,
eulogist of an Irish-American clan
plagued again and again by
tragedy. But his career was forever
marred by an accident at
Chappaquiddick in 1969, when a
car he was driving plunged off a
bridge, killing a young woman.
Kennedy's death triggered an
outpouring of superlatives from
Democrats and Republicans as
well as foreign leaders.
Sen. Orrin Hatch, the
conservative Republican from
Utah who was alternately a
political partner and opponent of
the unapologetic liberal for three
decades, said " Ted Kennedy was
an iconic, larger than life United
States Senator whose influence
cannot be overstated." He listed of
nearly a dozen bipartisan bills they
worked on jointly, including a
federally funded program for
victims of HIV/AIDS, health
insurance for lower-income
children and tax breaks to
encourage the development of
medicine for rare diseases.
Kennedy's family announced his
death in a brief statement released
early Wednesday.
"We've lost the irreplaceable
center of our family and joyous
light in our lives, but the
inspiration of his faith, optimism,
and perseverance will live on in
our hearts forever," it said. "We
thank everyone who gave him care
and support over this last year, and
everyone who stood with him for
so many years in his tireless march
for progress toward justice,
fairness and opportunity for all."
A few hours later, two vans left
the famed Kennedy compound at
Hyannis Port in pre-dawn
darkness. Both bore hearse license
plates with the word "hearse"
blacked out.
Several hundred miles away,
flags few at half-staff at the U.S.
Capitol, and Obama ordered the
same at the White House and all
federal buildings.
There was no immediate word
on funeral arrangements. Two of
Kennedy's brothers, John and
Robert, are buried at Arlington
National Cemetery across the
Potomac River from Washington.
In his later years, Kennedy cut a
barrel-chested figure, with a swath
of white hair, a booming voice and
a thick, widely imitated Boston
accent. He coupled fist-pumping
floor speeches with his well-honed
Irish charm and formidable
negotiating skills. He was both a
passionate liberal and a clear-eyed
pragmatist, willing to reach across
the aisle.
He was first elected to the Senate
in 1962, taking the seat that his
brother John had occupied before
winning the White House, and
served longer than all but two
senators in history.
His own hopes of reaching the
White House were damaged
perhaps doomed in 1969 by the
scandal that came to be known as
Chappaquiddick. He sought the
White House more than a decade
later, lost the Democratic
nomination to President Jimmy
Carter, and bowed out with a
stirring valedictory that echoed
across the decades: "For all those
whose cares have been our
concern, the work goes on, the
cause endures, the hope still lives
and the dream shall never die."
Kennedy was diagnosed with a
cancerous brain tumor in May
2008 and underwent surgery and a
grueling regimen of radiation and
chemotherapy.
He made a surprise return to the
Capitol last summer to cast the
decisive vote for the Democrats on
Medicare. He made sure he was
there again last January to see his
former Senate colleague Barack
Obama sworn in as the nation's
first black president, but suffered a
seizure at a celebratory luncheon
afterward.
He also made a surprise and
forceful appearance at last
summer's Democratic National
Convention, where he spoke of his
own illness and said health care
was the cause of his life. His death
occurred precisely one year later,
almost to the hour.
He was away from the Senate for
much of this year, leaving
Republicans and Democrats to
speculate about the impact what
his absence meant for the fate of
Obama's health care proposals.
Under state law, Kennedy's
successor will be chosen by special
election. In his last known public
act, the senator urged
Massachusetts state legislators to
give Democratic Gov. Deval
Patrick the power to name an
interim replacement. But that
appears unlikely, leaving
Democrats in Washington with
one less vote for at least the next
several months as they struggle to
pass Obama's health care
legislation.
His death came less than two
weeks after that of his sister
Eunice Kennedy Shriver on Aug.
11. Kennedy was not present for
the funeral, an indication of the
precariousness of his own health.
Of nine children born to Joseph
and Rose Kennedy, only one Jean
Kennedy Smith, survives.
In a recent interview with The
Associated Press, Kennedy's son
Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., said
his father had defied the
predictions of doctors by surviving
more than a year with his fight
against brain cancer.
The younger Kennedy said that
gave family members a surprise
blessing, as they were able to
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spend more time with the senator
and to tell him how much he had
meant to their lives.
Kennedy arrived at his place in
the Senate after a string of family
tragedies. He was the only one of
the four Kennedy brothers to die of
natural causes.
Kennedy's eldest brother, Joseph,
was killed in a plane crash in
World War II. President John F.
Kennedy was assassinated in
Dallas in 1963. Sen. Robert F.
Kennedy was gunned down in Los
Angeles as he campaigned for the
1968 Democratic presidential
nomination.
Years later, in 1999, John F.
Kennedy Jr. was killed in a plane
crash at age 38. His wife died with
him.
It fell to Ted Kennedy to deliver
the eulogies, to comfort his
brothers' widows, to mentor
fatherless nieces and nephews. It
was Ted Kennedy who walked
JFK's daughter, Caroline, down the
aisle at her wedding.
Tragedy had a way of bringing
out his eloquence.
Kennedy sketched a dream of a
better future as he laid to rest his
brother Robert in 1968: "My
brother need not be idealized, or
enlarged in death beyond what he
was in life; to be remembered
simply as a good and decent man,
who saw wrong and tried to right
it, saw suffering and tried to heal
it, saw war and tried to stop it."
After John Jr.'s death, the senator
said: "We dared to think, in that
other Irish phrase, that this John
Kennedy would live to comb gray
hair, with his beloved Carolyn by
his side. But like his father, he had
every gift but length of years."
His own legacy was blighted on
the night of July 18, 1969, when
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Ted Kennedy: Senator, family patriarch, dead at 77 (AP)

(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) never die." A postscript: More than a decade convalescence. Much of his work beyond what he was in life," his
Submitted at 8/26/2009 5:29:39 AM He was 48, older than any of his later, President Clinton nominated hangs in his Senate office, several voice trembled at St. Patrick's
brothers at the time of their deaths. a former Kennedy aide, Stephen seascapes or images of sailboats of Cathedral in New York. "He
WASHINGTON – In the quiet of He lived nearly three more Breyer, to the high court. He was the type he piloted in the waters should be remembered simply as a
a Capitol elevator, one of Edward decades, before succumbing to a confirmed easily. off Cape Cod. good and decent man who saw
M. Kennedy's fellow lawmakers brain tumor late Tuesday at age 77. _____ The walls of other rooms are wrong and tried to right it, saw
asked whether he had plans for a _____ There were humiliations along filled with political and personal suffering and tried to heal it, saw
family Thanksgiving away from That convention speech was a the way, drinking and memorabilia, family photographs war and tried to stop it."
the nation's capital. No, the political summons, for sure. But to womanizing, coupled with the or letters or some combination of A generation later, John
Massachusetts senator said with a what? triumphs that the Kennedy image- the two that hint at the passage of Kennedy Jr., who had been a
shake of his head, and mentioned Kennedy made plans to run for makers were always polishing. time and power. toddler when his father was in the
something about visiting his president again in 1984 before After the 1980 presidential In one room hangs a photo White House, died in a small plane
brothers' gravesites at Arlington deciding against it. By 1988, his campaign, Camelot took another showing Kennedy and his siblings crash off Martha's Vineyard. This
National Cemetery. moment had passed and he knew hit when he divorced. He later and parents in a family portrait eulogy invoked the words of
In his half-century in the public it. remarried, happily. taken in the 1930s, at a time their William Butler Yeats, the poet:
glare, Kennedy was, above all, heir He turned his public energies In later years came grumbling father, Joseph P. Kennedy, was "We dared to think, in that other
to a legacy as well as a hero to toward his congressional career, from fellow Democrats that his U.S. ambassador to England. Irish phrase, that this John
liberals, a foil to conservatives, a now judged one of the most political touch had failed him, and In another hangs a plaque from Kennedy would live to comb gray
legislator with few peers. accomplished in the history of the that he was too eager to strike a the USS John F. Kennedy, the hair. But like his father, he had
Alone of the Kennedy men of his Senate. deal with President George W. Navy vessel commissioned in every gift but the gift of years."
generation, he lived to comb gray "I'm a Senate man and a leader of Bush on education and Medicare. 1968 and named for the slain _____
hair, as the Irish poet had it. It was the institution," he said more than "I believe a president can make a president. "Thank you my friend for your
a blessing and a curse, as he surely a year ago in an Associated Press difference," he said over and over In another, the letter he wrote his many courtesies. If the world only
knew, and assured that his defeats interview. He left his imprint on in that campaign of 1980, at a time mother, Rose, teasingly accusing knew," reads a letter hanging on
and human foibles as well as many every major piece of social the country was suffering from her of having covered up a one wall of the office. It came
triumphs played out in public at legislation to pass Congress over a crushing combination of high deficiency in math. No, she wrote from Sen. Trent Lott of
greater length than his brothers span of decades. Health care, interest rates, inflation and back firmly in pencil, she always Mississippi, once the Senate's top
ever experienced. immigration, civil rights, education unemployment. got an A. Republican.
He was the only Kennedy a n d m o r e . R e p u b l i c a n s a n d But it wasn't necessary to be a Elsewhere, this: As the most prominent liberal of
brother to run for the White House Democrats alike lamented his president to make a difference, or "To Dad. Thank you for helping his day, Kennedy was long an easy
and lose. His brother John was a b s e n c e a s t h e y s t r u g g l e d to try. me get ahold of that first rung," and popular target for Republicans.
p r e s i d e n t w h e n h e w a s inconclusively in recent months He once startled a Republican wrote his son, Patrick, after The automobile accident that
assassinated in 1963 a few days with President Barack Obama's senator's aide, tracking her down winning a seat in the Rhode Island resulted in the death of a young
before Thanksgiving; Robert fell health care legislation. by phone in Poland, part of an Legislature in 1990. The parent Pennsylvania woman, Mary Jo
to a gunman in mid-campaign five He was in the front ranks of attempt to complete a bipartisan had dispatched aides to Providence Kopechne, drew snickers both
years later. An older brother, Democrats in 1987 who torpedoed compromise. to help assure victory for the child, before and after it shadowed his
Joseph Jr., was killed piloting a one of President Ronald Reagan's For years, he left the Capitol now an eighth-term member of presidential campaign in 1980.
plane in World War II. Supreme Court nominees. "Robert once a week to read to a student at Congress. Kennedy was driving the car in the
Runner-up in a two-man race for Bork's America is a land in which a nearby public school as part of a _____ accident at Chappaquiddick.
the Democratic nomination in women would be forced into back- literacy program. There were other, far more It is a cliche, yet true, that if his
1980, this Kennedy closed out his alley abortions, blacks would sit at When a longtime Senate reporter public ways that Kennedy became name was invaluable in
failed candidacy with a speech that segregated lunch counters, rogue fell terminally ill, Kennedy the family standard bearer. Democratic fundraising,
brought tears to the eyes of many police could break down citizens' dispatched one of his watercolors Robert Kennedy had spoken of conservatives long ago discovered
in a packed Madison Square doors in midnight raids, children to her room in a nursing home, and the assassinated president at the they could generate cash simply by
Garden. could not be taught about cheered her with chatty phone 1964 Democratic National telling donors they were doing
"For me, a few hours ago, this evolution," he said at the time. calls. Convention. Four years later, he, battle with Kennedy.
campaign came to an end," he said. It was a single sentence that _____ too, was dead, and this time the Kennedy understood that, and
"For all those whose cares have catalogued many of the issues he Kennedy took up painting in last surviving brother delivered the knew how to turn it to his own
been our concern, the work goes and Democrats devoted their earnest after a plane crash that eulogy. advantage.
on, the cause endures, the hope careers to over the second half of broke his back in the mid-1960s "My brother need not be
still lives and the dream shall the 20th century. and led to a lengthy idealized or enlarged in death TED page 10
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Kennedy, the brother of former 1960s.
President John F Kennedy, has He was widely expected to be
died at 77, after a long battle with the next Kennedy in the White
a brain tumour. House, but he was never able to
He became a Democratic fully overcome the scandal caused
Massachusetts senator in 1962, in 1969, when he drove a car off a
replacing his brother when he bridge at Chappaquiddick near his
resigned to become president, and home, killing his female
was re-elected seven times. passenger.
Senator Kennedy was a The incident helped derail his
dominant force in US politics for only presidential bid, more than a
almost 50 years. decade later.
President Barack Obama, of But he remained active in
whom he was an active supporter, politics right up until his death,
said he was "heartbroken" to hear famously endorsing Barack Obama
of his death. for the Democratic nomination
"An important chapter in our during a tight race with Hillary
history has come to an end," he of the most effective and popular reform with Republican John never stopped fighting for the Clinton last year.
said in a statement. legislators in American history. McCain. causes which were his life's work. At his death, he was the third
"Our country has lost a great But the praise was coming from But he was a fierce critic of the "I am proud to have counted him longest serving senator in US
leader, who picked up the torch of right across the political divide. Bush administration, in particular as a friend." history.
his fallen brothers and became the T h e R e p u b l i c a n s w e r e a l s o over Iraq and the prisoner abuse 'Joyous light' Last week, he asked the
greatest United States senator of praising him, saying that he was scandal. Dawn broke over Washington's Massachusetts governor to change
our time." the kind of man that you couldn't He will also be remembered as a Capitol building, the home of the state law to allow a speedy
Later, in a televised tribute, Mr help but like even if you disagreed s t a u n c h s u p p o r t e r o f I r i s h Senate, with the US flag flying at succession when his Senate seat
Obama described him as one of the with him. Republicanism - at one time half mast. became vacant.
"most accomplished Americans to That kind of praise has been calling for British troops to leave The Kennedy family announced Analysts suggest that Senator
serve our democracy". echoing across the morning shows Northern Ireland - although he was Senator Kennedy's death in a brief Kennedy feared a lengthy gap
S e n a t o r K e n n e d y h a d - they all broke into special later involved in the peace process statement in the early hours of could deny Democrats a crucial
c h a m p i o n e d i s s u e s s u c h a s coverage of the kind that is leading to the Good Friday Wednesday. vote on Mr Obama's flagship
education and healthcare, central normally reserved for when former Agreement. "Edward M Kennedy, the health reform.
to Mr Obama's first term. presidents die. Senate Majority leader Harry husband, father, grandfather, His death comes weeks after that
In 2006, Time magazine named But of course all of the coverage Reid said the Kennedy family and brother and uncle we loved so of his older sister, Eunice Kennedy
him as one of America's "Ten Best has also included the controversies the Senate had "together lost our deeply, died late Tuesday night at Shriver, on 11 August.
Senators", saying that he had in Edward Kennedy's life, not least patriarch". home in Hyannis Port Kennedy was at the center of the
"amassed a titanic record of of all the death of Mary Jo "The liberal lion's mighty roar (Massachusetts)," the statement most important issues facing the
legislation affecting the lives of Kopechne at Chappaquiddick may now fall silent, but his dream said. nation for decades, and he did
virtually every man, woman and bridge in 1969. shall never die," he said. "We've lost the irreplaceable much to help shape them. A
child in the country". Our correspondent says he was UK Prime Minister Gordon centre of our family and joyous defender of the poor and politically
The BBC's Richard Lister in also skilled at forging alliances Brown said that Senator Kennedy l i g h t i n o u r l i v e s , b u t t h e disadvantaged, he set the standard
W a s h i n g t o n s a y s S e n a t o r across party lines: pushing an would be "mourned not just in inspiration of his faith, optimism, for his party on health care,
Kennedy, known affectionately as education initiative with President America but in every continent". and perseverance will live on in
Teddy, will be remembered as one George W Bush, and immigration "Even facing illness and death, he our hearts forever." SENATOR page 12
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continued from page 3
Kennedy drove his car off a bridge
and into a pond on
Chappaquiddick Island, on
Martha's Vineyard. Mary Jo
Kopechne, a 28-year-old worker
with RFK's campaign, was found
dead in the submerged car's back
seat 10 hours later.
Kennedy, then 37, pleaded guilty
to leaving the scene of an accident
and received a two-month
suspended sentence and a year's
probation. A judge eventually
determined there was "probable
cause to believe that Kennedy
operated his motor vehicle
negligently ... and that such
operation appears to have
contributed to the death of Mary Jo
Kopechne."
At the height of the scandal,
Kennedy went on national
television to explain himself in an
extraordinary 13-minute address in
which he denied driving drunk and
rejected rumors of "immoral
conduct" with Ms. Kopechne. He
said he was haunted by "irrational"
thoughts immediately after the
accident, and wondered "whether
some awful curse did actually hang
over all the Kennedys." He said his
failure to report the accident right
away was "indefensible."
After Chappaquiddick
especially, Kennedy gained a
reputation as a heavy drinker and a
womanizer, a tragically flawed
figure haunted by the fear that he
did not quite measure up to his
brothers. As his weight ballooned,
he was lampooned by comics and
cartoonists in the 1980s and '90s as
the very embodiment of
government waste, bloat and
decadence.
In 1991, Kennedy roused his
nephew William Kennedy Smith
and his son Patrick from bed to go
out for drinks while staying at the
family's Palm Beach, Fla., estate.
Later that night, a woman Smith
met at a bar accused him of raping
her at the home.
Smith was acquitted, but the
senator's carousing and testimony
about him wandering about the
house in his shirttails and no pants
further damaged his reputation.
Kennedy offered a mea culpa in
a speech at Harvard that October,
recognizing "my own
shortcomings, the faults in the
conduct of my private life."
Politically, his concession speech
at the Democratic convention in
1980 turned out to be a defining
moment. At 48, he seemed
liberated from the towering
expectations and high hopes
invested in him after the death of
his brothers, and he plunged into
his work in the Senate. In his later
years, after he had divorced and
remarried, he came to be regarded
as a statesman on Capitol Hill,
with a growing reputation as an
effective, hard-working lawmaker.
His legislative achievements
included bills to provide health
insurance for children of the
working poor, the landmark 1990
Americans with Disabilities Act,
Meals on Wheels for the elderly,
abortion clinic access, family
leave, and the Occupational Safety
and Health Administration.
He was also a key negotiator on
legislation creating a Medicare
prescription drug benefit for senior
citizens, was a driving force for
peace in Ireland and a persistent
critic of the war in Iraq.
Senate Majority Leader Harry
Reid of Nevada issued a statement
that said: "Ted Kennedy's dream
was the one for which the
Founding Fathers fought and for
which his brothers sought to
realize. The liberal lion's mighty
roar may now fall silent, but his
dream shall never die."
Former first Lady Nancy Reagan
said that her husband and Kennedy
"could always find common
ground, and they had great respect
for one another."
"Even facing illness and death he
never stopped fighting for the
causes which were his life's work.
I am proud to have counted him as
a friend and proud that the United
Kingdom recognized his service
earlier this year with the award of
an honorary knighthood." British
Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
Whatever his national standing,
Kennedy was unbeatable in
Massachusetts. He won his first
election in 1962, filling out the
unexpired portion of his brother's
term. He won an eighth term in
2006. Kennedy served close to 47
years, longer than all but two
senators in history: Robert Byrd of
West Virginia (50 years and
counting) and the late Strom
Thurmond of South Carolina, who
died after a tenure of nearly 47 1/2
years.
Born in 1932, the youngest of
Joseph and Rose Kennedy's nine
children, Edward Moore Kennedy
was part of a family bristling with
political ambition, beginning with
maternal grandfather John F.
"Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, a
congressman and mayor of Boston.
Round-cheeked Teddy was
thrown out of Harvard in 1951 for
cheating, after arranging for a
classmate to take a freshman
Spanish exam for him. He
eventually returned, earning his
degree in 1956.
He went on to the University of
Virginia Law School, and in 1962,
while his brother John was
president, announced plans to run
for the Senate seat JFK had
vacated in 1960. A family friend
had held the seat in the interim
because Kennedy was not yet 30,
the minimum age for a senator.
Kennedy was immediately
involved in a bruising primary
campaign against state Attorney
General Edward J. McCormack, a
nephew of U.S. House Speaker
John W. McCormack.
"If your name was simply
Edward Moore, your candidacy
would be a joke," chided
McCormack.
Kennedy won the primary by
300,000 votes and went on to
overwhelmingly defeat Republican
George Cabot Lodge, son of the
late Ambassador Henry Cabot
Lodge, in the general election.
Devastated by his brothers'
assassinations and injured in a
1964 plane crash that left him with
back pain that would plague him
for decades, Kennedy temporarily
withdrew from public life in 1968.
But he re-emerged in 1969 to be
elected majority whip of the
Senate.
Then came Chappaquiddick.
Kennedy still handily won re-
election in 1970, but he lost his
leadership job. He remained
outspoken in his opposition to the
Vietnam War and support of social
programs but ruled out a 1976
presidential bid.
In the summer of 1978, a Gallup
Poll showed that Democrats
preferred Kennedy over President
Carter 54 percent to 32 percent. A
year later, Kennedy decided to run
for the White House with a
campaign that accused Carter of
turning his back on the Democratic
agenda.
The difficult task of dislodging a
sitting president was compounded
by Kennedy's fumbling answer to
a question posed by CBS' Roger
Mudd: Why do you want to be
president?
"Well, it's um, you know you
have to come to grips with the
different issues that, ah, we're
facing," Kennedy said. "I mean,
we can, we have to deal with each
of the various questions of the
economy, whether it's in the area
of energy ..."
Long afterward, he said, "Well, I
learned to lose, and for a Kennedy
that's hard." Kennedy married
Virginia Joan Bennett, known as
Joan, in 1958. They divorced in
1982. In 1992, he married
Washington lawyer Victoria
Reggie. His survivors include a
daughter, Kara Kennedy Allen;
two sons, Edward Jr. and Patrick, a
congressman from Rhode Island;
and two stepchildren, Caroline and
Curran Raclin.
Edward Jr. lost a leg to bone
cancer in 1973 at age 12. Kara had
a cancerous tumor removed from
her lung in 2003. In 1988, Patrick
had a noncancerous tumor pressing
on his spine removed. He has also
struggled with depression and
addiction and announced in June
that he was re-entering rehab.
Kennedy's memoir, "True
Compass," is set to be published in
the fall.
___
On the Net:
Kennedy's office:
http://kennedy.senate.gov
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Submitted at 8/26/2009 6:24:26 AM
BOSTON – Sen. Edward M.
Kennedy was a Democrat's
Democrat, so much so that he
became a rallying point for those
in his party and an object of
derision for Republican opponents.
Yet his affability and capability
to span the partisan divide on an
array of legislative matters
prompted an outpouring of
condolences from those in the
GOP as well as the Democratic
Party following his death Tuesday
at age 77 from brain cancer.
President Barack Obama led the
Democrats, saying in a statement:
"For five decades, virtually every
major piece of legislation to
advance the civil rights, health and
economic well-being of the
American people bore his name
and resulted from his efforts."
Former President George H.W.
Bush spoke for his son, former
President George W. Bush, in
expressing sympathies from
members of the Republican Party.
"While we didn't see eye to eye
on many political issues through
the years, I always respected his
steadfast public service," said a
statement issued by the elder Bush,
who noted that his library gave the
senator a public service award in
2003.
" Ted Kennedy was a seminal
figure in the U.S. Senate a leader
who answered the call to duty for
some 47 years, and whose death
closes a remarkable chapter in that
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body's history," he said.
The widow of another
Republican president, Ronald
Reagan, echoed those sentiments.
"Given our political differences,
people are sometimes surprised by
how close Ronnie and I have been
to the Kennedy family," Nancy
Reagan said in a statement from
Los Angeles.
"But Ronnie and Ted could
always find common ground, and
they had great respect for one
another. In recent years, Ted and I
found our common ground in stem
cell research, and I considered him
an ally and a dear friend. I will
miss him."
Her husband died in June 2004
of complications from Alzheimer's
disease.
For the governor of her home
state, the loss was personal.
California Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger, whose wife,
Maria Shriver, was Kennedy's
niece, came to politics after careers
as a bodybuilder and actor and
credited Kennedy with helping
him in his current role.
"I have personally benefited and
grown from his experience and
advice, and I know countless
others have as well," the governor
said in a statement. "Teddy taught
us all that public service isn't a
hobby or even an occupation, but a
way of life and his legacy will live
on."
Kennedy's death came just two
weeks after that of Shriver's
mother, Eunice Kennedy Shriver,
one of the senator's siblings.
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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt
Romney, a 2008 GOP presidential
contender, recalled losing to
Kennedy in a Senate race.
Nonetheless, the two joined forces
in 2006 to help pass a universal
health insurance law in
Massachusetts.
"In 1994, I joined the long list of
those who ran against Ted and
came up short. But he was the kind
of man you could like even if he
was your adversary," Romney
said.
The Senate's top Democrat, Sen.
Harry Reid, D-Nev., promised that
Congress, while mourning
Kennedy's loss, would renew the
push for the cause of Kennedy's
life health care reform.
"Ted Kennedy's dream was the
one for which the founding fathers
fought and for which his brothers
sought to realize," Reid said in a
statement. "The liberal lion's
mighty roar may now fall silent,
but his dream shall never die."
Sen. Max Baucus, a Montana
Democrat who heads the
committee working on the health
care bill, made a similar vow.
"In the true spirit of Ted Kennedy
we will continue to advance the
ideals and issues that were so close
to his heart and such a part of his
remarkable life," he said in a
statement.
Sen. Christopher Dodd, a
Connecticut Democrat who visited
Kennedy on Cape Cod this
summer to discuss strategy on the
health care overhaul, said he
would miss his friend for the rest
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of his time in Congress.
"I'm not sure America has ever
had a greater senator, but I know
for certain that no one has had a
greater friend than I and so many
others did in Ted Kennedy," Dodd
said.
Former President Jimmy Carter,
who beat out Kennedy for the
1980 Democratic presidential
nomination, called him "an
unwavering advocate for the
millions of less fortunate in our
country."
"The courage and dignity he
exhibited in his fight with cancer
was surpassed only by his lifelong
commitment and service to his
country," Carter said in a
statement.
Kennedy's junior colleague, Sen.
John Kerry, D-Mass., lauded him
for his cancer fight.
"He taught us how to fight, how
to laugh, how to treat each other,
and how to turn idealism into
action, and in these last fourteen
months, he taught us much more
about how to live life, sailing into
the wind one last time," Kerry
said.
"No words can ever do justice to
this irrepressible, larger than life
presence who was simply the best
the best senator, the best advocate
you could ever hope for, the best
colleague and the best person to
stand by your side in the toughest
of times."
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Sony Japan announces
5 new Blu-ray
recorder/HDD combos
By Serkan Toto (CrunchGear)
Submitted at 8/26/2009 12:22:04 AM
The flood of video recording
devices coming out of Japan
doesn’t want to end. Today Sony
unveiled five Blu-ray recorders
with built-in HDDs[JP] for the
Japanese market, and one of them
has a 2 TB HDD. Sony says they
tried to focus especially on
usability and design with these
machines.
The new line consists of the
B D Z - E X 2 0 0 ( 2 T B
HDD/$2,800/pictured above),
BDZ-RX100 (1TB HDD/$1,800),
BDZ-RX50 (500GB
HDD/$1,500), BDZ-RX30
(320GB HDD/$1,200) and the
BDZ-RS10 (320GB HDD/$1,000).
Sony added Sky PerfecTV
support for some of these devices
(the 320GB-models are being left
out), which marks the first time a
manufacturer did that for a Blu-ray
recorder. The model equipped with
a 2TB HDD, for example, can
store 253 of HD TV material. The
devices (again, apart from the 320
GB-models) support Sony
Walkman and the PSP, too.
Japanese stores will get the
players in the middle of
September, but the flagship model
(the EX200) will go on sale at the
beginning of November. No word
yet on international sales plans
from Sony.
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is set to begin in four months, once Spears of the early 2000s would shock was had by all. At Madison
Jon and Kate Gosselin’s 5-year- O'Neal is released from the not have allowed the performance Square Garden this week, the
old sextuplets and 8-year-old twins California detention center where of Aug. 24, 2009 to take place. crowd was made up mostly women
are starting to rebel against the he’s serving time for possession of What transpired at Madison in their late teens and early 20s.
constant taping of their lives. narcotics and bringing narcotics Square Garden didn’t qualify as a They seemed less interested in
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revolt,” Jon Gosselin told Life & “Redmond has signed the deal
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done. Spears’ lip synching was
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M. Kennedy, the youngest brother August 11, and while he attended a the statesman had been diagnosed
of President John F. Kennedy and private mass held in remembrance with a malignant brain tumor. This
Robert F. Kennedy, died Tuesday of his sister, the senator, suffering was followed by a three-hour
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26 Aug 2009 09:30 am The
American Way Of Torture
by Andrew
Greg Sargent notes another
document secured by the ACLU.
(Yes, Greenwald is right that it's
bizarre the media in this country
are second to the ACLU in
demanding information from the
government.) This document gives
a detailed account of the torture
techniques used by the Bush-
Cheney administration in the elite
CIA program. This is the most
professional version of the
widespread torture authorized by
Bush and conducted in every
theater of combat, by every branch
of the armed forces, directed that
all prisoners could be potential
terrorists and therefore outside
civilizational norms of humane
treatment.
The document reads, like so
much else from the Cheney years,
like a document from a South
American dictatorship in the
1970s or 1980s. If someone had
told me a few years ago that it had
popped up in the Soviet archives, I
would have believed him. Read the
whole thing if you can. It is a
distressing document. Here's what
the "CIA pros" did to prisoners
(the non-CIA pros improvised the
president's directive to torture and
abuse prisoners in very similar
ways): stress positions, nudity,
hooding, sensory deprivation,
sleep deprivation, long time
standing, beatings, hypothermia,
and walling. They key thing,
according to the CIA, is to enhance
"the potential dread a high-value
detainee might have of US
custody". Notice the shift from the
standards of the past. In the past,
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bombardment with light, loud
noise, water-dousing and walling.
These techniques can be used in
combination. Some more details:
An HVD may be walled one
time to make a point or twenty to
thirty times when an interrogator
requires a more significant
response to a question. In an
interrogation designed to be
intense, an HVD may be walled
multiple times in one session...
Current OMS guidance on
cramped confinement limits
confinement in the large box to 8
hours at a time for no more than 18
hours a day and confinement in the
small box to two hours...
Interrogators will often use one
technique to support another. As
an example, interrogators would
tell an HVD in a stress position
that he [HVD] is going back to the
walling wall for walling if he fails
to hold the stress position until told
otherwise by the HVD. This places
additional stress on the HVD who
will typically try to hold the stress
position for as long as possible to
avoid the walling wall.
John McCain will remember
these techniques and variants of
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dreaded. That's what Cheney did to Abu Ghraib: shitting torture victims. The US crimes, then core American values
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When a Moral Majority
fundraising appeal somehow
arrived at his office one day in the
early 1980s, word leaked to the
public, and the conservative group
issued an invitation for him to
come to Liberty Baptist College if
he was ever in the neighborhood.
Pleased to accept, was the word
from Kennedy.
"So I told Jerry (Falwell) and he
almost turned white as a sheet,"
said Cal Thomas, then an aide to
the conservative leader.
Dinner at the Falwell home was
described as friendly.
Desert was a political sermon on
tolerance, delivered by the liberal
from Massachusetts.
"I believe there surely is such a
thing as truth, but who among us
can claim a monopoly?" Kennedy
said from the podium that night.
"There are those who do, and their
own words testify to their
intolerance."
_____
More than a quarter-century
later, he was still eager to make a
difference. At a critical point in the
2008 presidential race, he endorsed
Barack Obama over Hillary
Rodham Clinton for the
Democratic nomination, then
Latam exports 'worst in 70 years'
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Submitted at 8/26/2009 4:29:35 AM
Exports from Latin American and
Caribbean nations are set to show
their steepest fall in more than 70
years, the United Nations has
predicted.
The region's exports are
expected to shrink in volume by
11% in 2009, says the UN
Economic Commission for Latin
America and the Caribbean
embarked on an ambitious
schedule of campaign appearances.
He cast his endorsement in terms
that linked Obama to the
Kennedys.
"There was another time, when
another young candidate was
running for president and
challenging America to cross a
new frontier," he said.
"He faced criticism from the
preceding Democratic president,
who was widely respected in the
party," Kennedy said.
"And John Kennedy replied: 'The
world is changing. The old ways
will not do. ... It is time for a new
generation of leadership.'"
_____
That endorsement came a few
months before the seizure that
signaled the presence of a deadly
brain tumor. There were
memorable public moments ahead,
a surprise visit to the Senate to cast
the decisive vote on a Medicare
bill and, before that, a turn at the
podium at the Democratic National
Convention in Denver.
"As I look ahead, I am
strengthened by family and
friendship," he said there last
summer. "So many of you have
been with me in the happiest days
(Eclac).
If the prediction proves accurate,
it will be the worst drop since
1937.
"Policies to reactivate trade are
urgently needed," said Eclac
executive secretary Alicia
Barcena.
Imports are also expected to fall
sharply, says Eclac. The
commission predicts a decline of
14%, which would be the biggest
reduction since 1982.
Oil ills
and the hardest days. Together we
have known success and seen
setbacks, victory and defeat.
"But we have never lost our
belief that we are all called to a
better country and a newer world,"
he said. "And I pledge to you, I
pledge to you that I will be there
next January on the floor of the
United States Senate when we
begin the great test."
His time in the Senate was
growing short, though. He smiled
broadly as he took his seat
outdoors at Obama's inauguration
on Jan. 20, then suffered a seizure
a few hours later at a luncheon
inside the capitol.
"He was there when the Voting
Rights Act passed" in the mid-
1960s, the nation's first black
president said moments later in his
remarks. "And so I would be lying
to you if I did not say that right
now a part of me is with him. And
I think that's true for all of us."
_____
Generations of aides recall
Kennedy telling them the biggest
mistake of his career was turning
down a deal that President Richard
M. Nixon offered for universal
health care. It seemed not generous
enough at the time. Having missed
According to Eclac, Latin
America and the Caribbean are
feeling the impact of the global
economic crisis on four fronts:
foreign direct investment,
remittances from citizens abroad,
commodity prices and trade.
Worst hit have been countries
that thrive on exporting
commodities, oil and minerals.
Venezuela and Ecuador (which
are oil exporters), Colombia (oil
and coal) and Bolivia (natural gas)
could see their exports slashed by
the opportunity then, Kennedy
spent the rest of his career hoping
for an elusive second chance.
Now, some Democrats wonder
privately if the party can learn
from that lesson, and take what is
achievable rather than risk
everything by reaching for what it
uncertain. Republicans and
Democrats alike say Kennedy's
absence has affected the debate on
Obama's signature issue, with
unknown consequences.
It was the issue that motivated
him even after he was no longer
able to travel to the Capitol to cast
a vote. He called it "the cause of
my life."
And in July, in a reflection on his
own mortality, he worried that his
precarious health might mean
Massachusetts would have only
one senator for a brief while, and
Democrats would be handicapped
as they tried to pass health care
legislation.
After 47 years in the Senate in a
seat held by his brother before him
Kennedy urged a change in state
law so the governor could appoint
a temporary replacement "should a
vacancy occur."
as much as 32.6% this year, Eclac
says.
In the first half of 2009, mineral
and oil exports from the region
slumped by 50.7%, while exports
of manufactured and agricultural
products showed lesser falls of
23.9% and 17% respectively.
The steepest fall was in exports
to the European Union (-36.3% in
total) and the US (-35.3%).
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Nintendo KIRFs Nerf
with soft football
patent attempt
By Vladislav Savov (Engadget)
Submitted at 8/26/2009 9:31:00 AM
Ready for your daily dose of
absurdity? Nintendo has filed for
patent protection of yet another
inflatable idea, this time throwing
up a spongy football accoutrement
for your Wiimote. The "ball" has a
strap to keep you from actually
throwing it, and in-game
trajectories are calculated on the
basis of the angle and force of your
pseudo-throwing motion. If you're
thinking the Wiimote can do all
this even without a plush
attachment, you'd be right, but
then you'd just look silly jumping
and juking in front of your TV
without a proper accessory in
hand.
[Via Joystiq]
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Submitted at 8/26/2009 6:59:00 AM
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Submitted at 8/26/2009 7:07:13 AM
Photo: Ingram/WireImage
Two employees of Michael
Jackson who were present in the
singer’s home on June 25th want
to help investigators piece together
the events leading up to the star’s
death. Michael Amir, Jackson’s
personal assistant, and Alberto
Alvarez, a security guard who
reportedly placed the 911 call
demanding an ambulance, had
brief informal talks with police the
day Jackson died, but their lawyer
Carl Douglas says the two men can
shed new light on the June 25th
timeline, the Los Angeles Times
reports.
For instance, at 12:13 p.m. on
June 25th, Amir received a
panicked four-second message
from Jackson’s personal physician,
Dr. Conrad Murray, that
essentially said, “Come quick.”
Nine minutes later, paramedics
were called to Jackson’s home.
Douglas said both of his clients are
eager to share more information
with authorities but have so far
been stonewalled. However,
Douglas wouldn’t elaborate on
what other information his clients
might tell authorities.
Look back at Jackson’s life and
career, in photos.
“We arranged two separate
occasions for LAPD investigators
Daily Crunch: Paint My Chicken Coop Edition
By Bryce Durbin (CrunchGear)
Submitted at 8/26/2009 12:00:43 AM
Eraser with built-in brush for
to meet with my clients. My clients
came early wearing suits and ties.
The first meeting was canceled and
rescheduled. The second meeting I
had to call them to inquire about
the [detectives’] absence,”
Douglas told the LAT. The LAPD
wouldn’t comment on an open
investigation. Because Alvarez
was in the room with Murray in
the moments before paramedics
arrived, Douglas believes his client
could provide crucial information
eraser bits - absolutely brilliant
EyeWriter: low-cost, open-
source eye-based drawing system
Wooden speakers with integrated
and help confirm or deny whatever
Dr. Murray had previously told
investigators in interviews.
As Rock Daily previously
reported, the coroner overseeing
Jackson’s case has declared the
death a homicide, and Murray
remains the focus of the
investigation. An unsealed search
warrant revealed that Jackson
likely died from an overdose of a
drug “cocktail” including 25 mgs
of the powerful anesthetic
digital clock
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Propofol, Valium and other
sedatives, a combination that
ultimately caused Jackson to stop
breathing and suffer sudden
cardiac arrest.
Stars and fans pay tribute to MJ:
check out photos from his star-
studded memorial.
According to the LA Times, and
despite Murray’s lawyer Ed
Chernoff’s denials, police also
believe that Murray made three
phone calls totaling 47 minutes in
the hour of Jackson’s death.
However, contrary to previous
reports that stated Murray left
Jackson alone after administering
Propofol to make calls, the Times
writes that those phone calls
reportedly didn’t begin until 11:18
a.m., or 18 minutes after Murray
discovered Jackson wasn’t
breathing. If this new timeline is
accurate, considering 911 wasn’t
called until 12:22 p.m., that’s an
hour and twenty-two minute gap
between when Murray found
Jackson not breathing to when
paramedics were called.
Related Stories:
• Conrad Murray’s Lawyer
Disputes “Police Theory” in
Jackson’s Death
• Warrant Reveals Jackson Likely
Died After Dose of Propofol;
Coroner Declares Death Homicide
• Jackson Doctor Conrad Murray
Breaks His Silence in New Video
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Introducing our new running
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4,500 lumens: Sanyo to
roll out brightest mobile
projector out there
By Serkan Toto (CrunchGear)
Submitted at 8/26/2009 6:21:33 AM
Sanyo has today announced a
new mobile projector for the
Japanese market, the LP-
XU106[press release in English].
The device is the brightest in its
weight class (under 4kg),
producing a respectable 4,000
lumens. It’s sized at
334.2×257.5×78.4mm and weighs
just 3.4kg.
Other specs include a contrast
ratio of 1,000:1, a 275W lamp,
LAN, a 1W mono speaker and the
so-called “corner keystone
correction function” that corrects
the projected images when you
can’t place the projector directly in
front of the screen (see the graphic
below for a detailed explanation).
Sanyo has written the press
release in English, but doesn’t say
when users outside Japan can buy
the LP-XU106. In this country,
it’ll hit stores November 20,
costing $5,800.
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education, civil rights, campaign-
finance reform and labor law
Joe Holley writes in The
Washington Post on Ted
Kennedy's political importance
He was a Rabelaisian figure in
the Senate and in life, instantly
recognizable by his shock of white
hair, his florid, oversize face, his
booming Boston brogue, his
powerful but pained stride. He was
a celebrity, sometimes a self-
parody, a hearty friend, an
implacable foe, a man of large
faith and large flaws, a melancholy
character who persevered, drank
deeply and sang loudly. He was a
Kennedy.
New York Times journalist John
M Broder describes the Kennedy
effect.
Seared in my memory: When I
interned at the Heritage
Foundation, I would pop into Mass
at Saint Joseph's on the Hill. And I
would almost always find myself
sitting near Ted Kennedy. He's
responsible for things that are
deeply offensive to my conscience
and diametrically opposed to the
teachings of the Catholic faith, and
he probably led some people astray
by his example. But our faith also
teaches that we are all sinners and
Anything to worry about with Frontline? Not really
By Joseph Lazzaro
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 8/25/2009 5:00:00 PM
Filed under: Stocks to Buy
During the Chicago Bulls' great
run of NBA championships,
Michael Jordan was once asked if
he was worried about competing
against an impressive Utah Jazz
team in the finals one year.
"Not really," Jordan said.
Likewise with my stance toward
that there is redemption. He had
some incredibly good forces in his
life, not least among them his
sister, Eunice, who just died. I pray
for the repose of his soul. R.I.P.
Senator Kennedy.
Kathryn Lean Lopez blogs her
tribute at the National Review.
Elected first in 1962, the 77-year
-old Massachusetts liberal was
rooted in the civil rights and Great
Society battles of that decade, but
his enduring strength was an
ability to renew himself through
his mastery of issues and the
changing personalities of the
Senate. Nowhere was this clearer
than in Kennedy's early support of
Barack Obama in 2008, when the
young Illinois Democrat needed to
establish himself against more
veteran rivals for the White House.
Kennedy not only campaigned for
Obama but, at risk to his own
health, opened the Democratic
National Convention a year ago in
Denver and returned to
Washington repeatedly last winter
to cast needed votes to move the
new president's economic recovery
agenda.
David Rogers in Politico
highlights the veteran senator's
lasting political importance.
Frontline Ltd.(NYSE: FRO). FRO
has meandered somewhat since
recommended on April 28, 2009 at
$19.17, but just look on that as an
extended buy opportunity. I'm
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In many ways, he was the last
Honduras defiant over
man standing, straddling a mythic
family mantle of fame and a
vaunted career of political service,
elections
all the while wearing the crown of (BBC News | Americas | World government's course.
Camelot decades after its Edition) "We are not afraid of an embargo
heyday...the senator's death Submitted at 8/25/2009 7:55:47 PM by anybody.
brought to a close a storied "The country can carry on firmly
political era - of assassinations, T h e H o n d u r a n i n t e r i m and calmly without your support
Jackie O, Palm Beach, government says it will go ahead and that of other nations," he said
Chappaquiddick - and a lifetime of with presidential elections in a f t e r a m e e t i n g w i t h t h e
both tragedy and public service. November, even if results are not d e l e g a t i o n .
Andrea Billup writes in the The recognised by other countries. "Nobody is coming here to
Washington Times that'Camelot' It also told a visiting group of impose anything on us, unless
fades with Kennedy passing regional foreign ministers it was troops come from somewhere else
In losing Kennedy, Obama loses not concerned at international and force us."
a key Senate dealmaker at a crucialsanctions following the ousting of Presidential elections are due to
moment in legislative negotiations the president. be held on 29 November.
over the health care bill. Though Left-wing President Manuel The OAS delegation had wanted
an icon of Democratic liberalism, Zelaya was forced from the to persuade Mr Micheletti to
Kennedy was known to colleagues country on 28 June. accept a plan devised by Costan
as a jovial pragmatist, whose many The visiting ministers failed to Rican President Oscar Arias.
friendships with colleagues across persuade the government to accept Under the proposed accord, Mr
the political and ideological a mediated plan to return him to Zelaya would be reinstated as
spectrum made him one of the power. president, while Mr Micheletti
Senate's most influential players. He was ousted in a power would return to his pre-coup post
Kathy Kiely in USA Today struggle over his proposals for a as the speaker of Honduras's
examines the impact of Ted p u b l i c c o n s u l t a t i o n o n parliament, and early elections
Kennedy's death on healthcare constitutional change. would be called.
reform. His critics said the move was However, the delegation left
aimed at removing the current one- without success.
term limit on serving as president "While the committee considers
and paving the way for his re- that advances were made during its
election. visit, it must be noted that there is
No fear still no willingness to accept the
The visiting Organisation of San Jose Accord on the part of the
American States delegation - gentleman (Mr Micheletti)," the
reiterating my Buy rating for FRO. consisting of foreign ministers delegation said in a statement,
Continue reading Anything to from Argentina, Canada, Costa AFP reported.
worry about with Frontline? Not Rica, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama "The committee reiterates the
really and the Dominican Republic - had need for the rapid return to
Anything to worry about with tried to persuade the interim democratic normalcy... given the
Frontline? Not really originally government to allow him to return imminent start of the anticipated
appeared on BloggingStocks on to power to serve the remainder of electoral campaign," the statement
Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:00:00 EST. his term. continued.
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Interim President Roberto interim government has refused to
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Ted Kennedy's Death a Loss for Argentina rules on

Democr... - ABC News marijuana use
(Most Popular - Google News) absence now will cast a long Kennedy retreated to (BBC News | Americas | World The eight-page statement also
Submitted at 8/26/2009 7:02:15 AM shadow and actually make it Massachusetts following his brain Edition) called for a comprehensive policy
happen." tumor diagnoses in May 2008, but Submitted at 8/25/2009 5:05:47 PM against illegal drug trafficking.
Ted Kennedy made affordable A longtime chair of the Senate's he remained in the fray through op Health fears
health care for all Americans the Committee on Health, Education, -ed pieces and colleagues said he The supreme court in Argentina The move has been criticised by
goal of his Senate career and Labor and Pensions, Kennedy closely monitored the health care has ruled that it is unconstitutional some campaign groups who say it
hoped to see that reform achieved called for extending Medicare debate in newspapers and on C- to punish people for using w i l l e n c o u r a g e d a m a g i n g
in his lifetime. But the political c o v e r a g e t o a l l A m e r i c a n s , Span. Friends said Kennedy's m a r i j u a n a f o r p e r s o n a l behaviour and lead to health
giant's death raises the question of providing health coverage for the absence from the debate was consumption. problems.
whether a Congressional bipartisan uninsured and modernizing health painful for him and he hoped to be The decision follows a case of "There will be an increase in the
solution can be achieved. care systems by using new able to partake in the discussions five young men who were arrested drug trade and the people that fall
Even though Kennedy's battle technologies to cut costs. He also at some point. with a few marijuana cigarettes in i n t o a d d i c t i o n w i l l n o t ,
cry for health care continued in his p r o p o s e d r e q u i r i n g e v e r y Kennedy handed the reins of the their pockets. unfortunately, access treatment,"
absence from the Senate, while he American to have some form of health committee to Sen. Chris But the court said use must not Claudio Izaguirre, director of the
battled cancer, both Democrat and health insurance, a key point of Dodd of Connecticut, who kept in harm others and made it clear it Argentine Anti-drugs Association
Republican leaders said he was contention even within his own touch with him on Senate did not advocate a complete told Reuters.
sorely missed and his absence party. proceedings but that became decriminalisation. "My country doesn't have the
created a huge gap since he was "I've been able to receive it for increasingly difficult as Kennedy Correspondents say there is a necessary health coverage for what
the leader most easily positioned to myself and my family, just like all had problems communicating. growing momentum in Latin will happen," he said.
advance bipartisan negotiations. of us on the tip of the iceberg. But "His committee was very America towards decriminalising Argentina's move follows rulings
While the Senate's "Liberal I want every delegate at this instrumental by passing a health drugs for personal use. by several other countries across
Lion's" death could be a colossal convention to understand, that as care bill out in June... and he was The Argentine court ruled that: the region, including Venezuela,
blow to a health care reform bill, long as I can vote, as long as I involved in that," said White "Each adult is free to make Ecuador and Colombia.
his memory will likely stay in the have a voice in the United States House adviser David Axelrod on lifestyle decisions without the Last week, Mexico enacted a law
forefront of negotiations, and there Senate, it's going to be for that "GMA.""He was to the end very intervention of the state." decriminalising possession of
is already talk of a bill being Democratic Party platform plank, much interested and very much Supreme Court President small amounts of drugs, including
named after him. that provides decent quality health committed to seeing this become a Ricardo Lorenzetti said private cocaine and heroin - the country is
"It was the cause of his life and care, North and South, East and reality." behaviour was legal, "as long as it in the midst of a drugs turf war
he fought it all the way to the end West, for all Americans, as a Kennedy envisioned a system of doesn't constitute clear danger". which has claimed more than
of his life," said Kennedy's friend m a t t e r o f r i g h t a n d n o t o f universal health care but was "The state cannot establish 11,000 lives in the last three years.
and former press secretary Bob privilege," a fired-up Kennedy said willing to compromise as long as morality," he said. The aim of such moves is to
Shrum on ABC's "Good Morning in 1978 at the midterm Democratic the agenda was furthered. The initiative has been supported enable police to focus their efforts
America" today. "Maybe his convention in Memphis. by the government - Congress is on the big criminals in the drugs
expected to introduce amendments trade rather than dealing with petty
Is Housing Back? to the current drug laws.
But the court said it was not
cases, says our correspondent.
But it also marks a shift a
(Financial Sector and Stocks The S&P/Case-Shiller composite existing homes rose in July for the a d v o c a t i n g a c o m p l e t e dramatic regional shift to the
Analysis from Seeking Alpha) indexes of 10 and 20 metropolitan f o u r t h c o n s e c u t i v e m o n t h . decriminalisation of the drug - a decades-old US-backed policy of
Submitted at 8/26/2009 5:26:16 AM areas both rose 1.4 percent in June Economists expect the sector's move possibly aimed at deflecting running repressive military-style
from May, almost three times the recovery could help the nation criticism from the Church and wars on the drug trade, she adds.
Prices of U.S. single-family 0.5 percent increases of the month emerge from recession and further conservatives, says the BBC's Print Sponsor
h o m e s r o s e f o r t h e s e c o n d before. May's increases were the stabilize financial markets that Candace Piette in Buenos Aires.
c o n s e c u t i v e m o n t h i n J u n e , first in nearly three years. have suffered their worst crisis
exceeding expectations and adding Optimism over a housing since the 1930s.
to evidence that the three-year recovery blossomed last week after
housing slump is easing, Standard reports showed rising confidence
& Poor's reported on Tuesday. among homebuilder and sales of
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Microsoft Apologizes for Racially

Cha... - PC World
(Most Popular - Google News) company told Cnet. The Polish
Submitted at 8/26/2009 6:06:05 AM Microsoft site now features the
unaltered image.
Microsoft apologized Wednesday A couple of other things are
after a Polish version of the peculiar about Microsoft's (even
company's ad had a black man's unedited) image. First of all, the
head replaced with the head of a laptop in front of the black man is
white man. The image alteration of an Apple MacBook (yes, another
the picture was making rounds on Apple product in a Microsoft ad
the forums last night and Microsoft Microsoft ad left room for racial with the logo covered) and the
pulled the picture today. interpretation. However, in the computer monitor in front of the
The edit of the Microsoft ad for picture, only the black man's head w o m a n i s n o t p l u g g e d i n t o
Video: Lanyu's $98 LY-
its Polish division was crude, to w a s r e p l a c e d - - t h e h a n d s a n y t h i n g , e v e n t h o u g h t h e
say at least. The U.S. ad depicted noticeably a different color. k e y b o a r d i s .
three people at a conference table: Many thought this was originally Perhaps Microsoft should either
an Asian man, a black man, and a a joke, but a double check last look twice before buying stock EB01 smartbook
white woman. When localizing the night on both Microsoft's U.S. and photography or just hire a local
marketing image for Poland, Polish sites confirmed otherwise. photographer when they want to
Microsoft had the black man's Microsoft apologized and pulled localize some marketing images.
reviewed, disliked
head clumsily replaced with that of the image from the Polish site [Via Photoshop Disasters] Follow By Tim Stevens (Engadget) show up for this party. CE is
a white man. today, while "looking into the Daniel on Twitter@danielionescu Submitted at 8/26/2009 8:19:00 AM apparently the biggest killer here,
As pictured above, the photos are details of this situation," the with minimal support for
basically identical and the It wouldn't have taken a gadget multimedia content, productivity
guru to see this one coming: the apps, and even web surfing. An

Church outrage over Madonna gig first review of the Lanyu LY-
EB01, the $98 smartbook with a
266MHz (yes, one-quarter of one
Android install would have made
this thing into something of an
interesting commodity, but as-is it
(BBC News | Americas | World Levski Stadium, is expected to be "In some of her choreography GHz) ARM processor, is not seems less functional than your
Edition) attended by about 50,000 people. and stage scenarios, this singer especially positive, scoring 15 average smartphone. See for
Submitted at 8/26/2009 2:41:16 AM Saturday is also a day of lent for sends impressive messages which, points out of a possible 30 at yourself in the video review after
Orthodox Christians marking the however, run contrary to Christian Shanzai.com. Build quality is the break.
Madonna fans are being urged to beheading of John the Baptist. morality." actually reasonably highly rated, Continue reading Video: Lanyu's
stay away from her forthcoming Moral values Madonna will arrive in Sofia with the machine having a solid $98 LY-EB01 smartbook
Sticky and Sweet tour date in A statement from the Church f o l l o w i n g a c o n c e r t i n feel and, impressively, not a single reviewed, disliked
Bulgaria by the country's Orthodox accused Madonna of displaying "a n e i g h b o u r i n g R o m a n i a , o n moving part (unless you count Filed under: Laptops
Church. disrespectful and intolerant Wednesday. electrons). After that everything Video: Lanyu's $98 LY-EB01
Church of Bulgaria officials have attitude" to the religious feelings Almost all tickets - costing up to goes downhill, with the keyboard smartbook reviewed, disliked
accused the star of showing a "lack of Christians on her ongoing tour. 150 leva (£67) - have already been said to be cramped, that tiny screen originally appeared on Engadget
of respect" for church rituals. "We express our Christian sold, organisers said. too tiny, and its Windows CE 5.0 on Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:19:00
T h e y e x p r e s s e d t h e i r support and approval for the art of It will be one of the largest gigs operating system described as EST. Please see our terms for use
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Feel free to drink your shower water, kids Rockies gain on

By Nicholas Deleon OTHERWISE.” Nye the Science Guy, where he
(CrunchGear) The idea really isn’t all that describes how wetlands are Dodgers with walk-off
Submitted at 8/26/2009 7:20:01 AM novel. Strange in a domestic nature’s coffee filters. Keep in win in 10
setting, perhaps, but nothing you mind the show is designed for
Normally, you probably wouldn’t wouldn’t find in nature. As the elementary school kids, so the By Associated Press
consider drinking your own shower water collects on the terminology is somewhat (ESPN.com)
shower water after you had used it, bottom of the tub, it’s run through simplified. Submitted at 8/25/2009 11:01:21 PM
but throw a couple of plants in a series of filters and chemical- Thanks to YouTube, I’ve
there and you may well reconsider. soaking plants. After getting a nice embedded that very episode here Did you attend this game? If so,
Or, perhaps you’ll react like the cleaning from the plants, the water for your viewing pleasure. It’s start chronicling your sports
D r u d g e - u s h e r e d D a i l y M a i l goes underneath the tub and into broken into three parts, but this is memories today with ESPN's
commenters and say stuff like further network of filters. When only part one; interested parties Sports Passport. Enter the games
“WHAT IS THIS GARBAGE, I it’s all said and done, the water can find the remaining parts on you attend, upload your photos and
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DAMNED IF SOME EGGHEAD The invention hasn’t been And readers of a certain age may
S C I E N T I S T S A Y S prototyped yet, and exists only as recall the wetlands episode of Bill

Keepin' it real fake, part CCXXXIII: MacBook Air loses two inches,
adds a Windows key
By Joseph L. Flatley
(Engadget)
Submitted at 8/26/2009 10:05:00 AM
If we've learned one thing 'round
here, it's that the KIRFsters love
taking on Apple. And you know, at
first glance this KIRFacious take
on the MacBook Air doesn't seem
half bad. Of course, check it out in
profile and it looks a lot more like
your average netbook than it does Atom processor and 1GB RAM, Windows key
Cupertino's ultraportable -- but at this thing isn't exactly a Filed under: Laptops
least the shanzai manufacturer in workhorse, though it's safe to Keepin' it real fake, part
question as thrown in a few things assume that the price point will fall CCXXXIII: MacBook Air loses
that were neglected in the original, far below that of the "real deal." two inches, adds a Windows key
including: two USB ports, a But don't take our word for it -- originally appeared on Engadget
removable battery, and a PCIe slot check out a couple more views of on Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:05:00
for a 3G module. That said, they the thing after the break. EST. Please see our terms for use
also went with an 11.1-inch Continue reading Keepin' it real of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email
display (as opposed to the Air's 13- thing or not, depending on your fake, part CCXXXIII: MacBook this| Comments
incher), which could be a good POV. Of course, with a 1.6GH Air loses two inches, adds a

Jabra's HALO now ready to make stereo Bluetooth look a little less
ridiculous
By Chris Ziegler (Engadget)
Submitted at 8/26/2009 8:54:00 AM
By its very nature, stereo
Bluetooth gear is never going to
look quite as cool as its wired
equivalent -- but if we look back
on the early days, we're making
progress. Jabra's new over-the-ear
HALO should appeal to some with
its relatively convenient folding corded mode with a 3.5mm jack. make stereo Bluetooth look a little
design, and as an added bonus, it It's tough to say whether you'll get less ridiculous originally appeared
kinda looks like you're wearing a odd stares wearing these day in on Engadget on Wed, 26 Aug
futuristic hair beret when you slip and day out -- but if you're not 2009 08:54:00 EST. Please see our
it on. How can you argue with willing to find out the answer to terms for use of feeds. Read|
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earlier this year, the HALO's now Selfless, we know.
available at Best Buy locations for Filed under: Cellphones,
$130 promising 8 hours of music seamless transition between calls Portable Audio
playback, 13 days of standby, and tunes, and an innovative Jabra's HALO now ready to
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Seemingly solid PSP-4000
rumors give new hope for
UMD fans
By Tim Stevens (Engadget)
Submitted at 8/26/2009 8:29:00 AM
Put away black mourning clothes,
PSP owners, there's life yet in
them thar UMDs. When the PSP
Go was announced it seemed like
there was little time left for the
plucky (and generally disliked)
format, and indications that Sony
had planned to ditch it " since the
very beginning" were further nails
in its apparent coffin. But now,
according to a particularly reliable
tipster (who accurately predicted
the PS3 Slim in June, right down
to the inclusion of proper buttons),
there's a PSP-4000 inbound that
will still sport a UMD drive.
According to the tip this new
machine will live along-side the
Go, but little is known beyond
that... other than it's apparently
"nothing to actually get excited
about." Tell that to the kids with
the Lumines discs rattling away in
the spokes of their bicycles.
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CrunchDeals: 24-inch ASUS monitor
for $164 (after $10 rebate)
By Doug Aamoth
(CrunchGear)
Submitted at 8/26/2009 6:00:41 AM
Top o’ the morning, deal hunters. • 20,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio
Here’s a 24-inch monitor for $164
after $10 mail-in rebate. The
rebate’s good until the end of the refurbished). There’s a three-year
month, but even if you don’t send warranty, too.
it in you’re only out ten bucks. It
happens.
The monitor itself is the ASUS Monitor[ZipZoomFly.com via
VH242H. Specs include the dealnews]
following:
• 23.6-inch viewable area with
1920×1080 resolution
• HDMI, DVI, and VGA inputs
• 5ms response time
• 300 cd/m2 brightness
• Built-in speakers
This is a new monitor (not
ASUS VH242H 23.6in
W i d e s c r e e n L C D
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Governor Arnold
Schwarzenegger on Ted
Kennedy: 'His Legacy
Will Live on'
(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 8/26/2009 3:44:00 AM
Governor Arnold
Schwarzenegger opened up
Tuesday night about the passing of
Senator Edward M. Kennedy.
Governor Schwarzenegger
issued the following statement on
Tuesday night.
"Maria and I are immensely
saddened by the passing of Uncle
Teddy. He was known to the world
as the Lion of the Senate, a
champion of social justice, and a
political icon. Most importantly,
he was the rock of our family: a
loving husband, father, brother and
uncle. He was a man of great faith
and character. Teddy inspired our
country through his dedication to
health care reform, his
commitment to social justice, and
his devotion to a life of public
service. I have personally
benefited and grown from his
experience and advice, and I know
countless others have as well.
Teddy taught us all that public
service isn't a hobby or even an
occupation, but a way of life and
his legacy will live on."

Ancient cell phone modded into media center PC

By Doug Aamoth cell phone kit and installed a home The project took about 40 hours labor, though.
(CrunchGear) theater PC inside of it. That’s to complete, so you could Check out the full write-up at
Submitted at 8/26/2009 6:40:12 AM impressive, yes, but what’s more conceivably build something Metku.net— plenty more photos as
impressive is that he fit a USB similar over a caffeine- and well.
Now THIS, my friends, is a mod. hub, Wi-Fi card, sound card, and a nicotine-infused weekend. You’d [via Reg Hardware]
An enterprising Finnish fellow has 128×128 OLED screen into the VOIP calls to boot. have to then take a few days off to
gutted a super old Mobira Talkman handset. Oh, and it works for actually enjoy the fruits of your
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Earnings preview: Dollar Closing Bell: Even bulls are

Tree still thriving in surprised at a lack of pullback
recession (HGSI, BAC, GS, COCO)
By Jon Ogg (BloggingStocks)
By Trey Thoelcke Submitted at 8/25/2009 4:00:00 PM
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 8/25/2009 5:30:00 PM Filed under: Bank of America
(BAC), Goldman Sachs Group
Filed under: Earnings reports, (GS) The economic numbers are
Forecasts
Dollar Tree Stores
getting better, and every time the
bears call an overbought market
Tupperware makes
Inc.(NASDAQ: DLTR), the the market just gets even more
nation's leading operator of dollar expect the third-quarter results to overbought. Even some of the
up for the sell-off,
stores, is scheduled to discuss its b e a b o u t t h e s a m e . T h e bulls are surprised at how there has
Even bulls are surprised at a lack
and then some
second-quarter 2009 results Chesapeake, Va.-based company been no pullback. The housing
tomorrow morning in a conference has topped earnings expectations prices and consumer confidence of pullback (HGSI, BAC, GS, By Joseph Lazzaro
call at 9:00 AM ET. You can catch in recent quarters, by as much as reflect this data. COCO) (BloggingStocks)
the live webcast of the call on the six cents per share. Here are today's unofficial Closing Bell: Even bulls are Submitted at 8/25/2009 4:20:00 PM

company's website. Continue reading Earnings closing bell levels: surprised at a lack of pullback
(HGSI, BAC, GS, COCO) Filed under: Stocks to Buy I
In the three months that ended in preview: Dollar Tree still thriving Dow 9,539.21 +29.93 (0.31%) guess Wall Street over did it a little
July 31, Dollar Tree saw the in recession S&P 500 1,028.00 +2.43 originally appeared on
BloggingStocks on Tue, 25 Aug bit, on the downside, with
retirement of a long-time board Earnings preview: Dollar Tree (0.24%) Tupperware earlier this year,
member. Analysts surveyed by still thriving in recession originally Nasdaq 2,024.23 +6.25 (0.31%) 2009 16:00:00 EST. Please see our
terms for use of feeds. Permalink| driving shares down to about $11
Thomson Reuters expect the appeared on BloggingStocks on Top Analyst Upgrades in March. I caught the TUP train at
company to report that its earnings Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:30:00 EST. Top Analyst Downgrades Email this| Comments
$23.48 on April 28, 2009.
grew 22.2% from a year ago to Please see our terms for use of Top Day Trader Alerts TUP is now at $38.10, good for a
$0.54 per share. Revenue for the feeds. Permalink| Email this| Continue reading Closing Bell: smooth 60% gain. And
quarter is expected to be 11.2% Comments Tupperware's growth story
higher to $1.2 billion, in line with remains intact: Tupperware will
preliminary results. Analysts so far benefit from the U.S. 'frugal
consumer' trend toward many,
Vibe and Creative Loafing: Private equity many more leftovers and fewer
meals out. Hence, I'm Reiterating
moves in print publishing my Buy rating for Tupperware
Brands Corporation(NYSE: TUP).
By Trey Thoelcke business will be known as the Vibe Continue reading Tupperware
(BloggingStocks) Lifestyle Network. makes up for the sell-off, and then
Submitted at 8/25/2009 4:40:00 PM Continue reading Vibe and some
Creative Loafing: Private equity Tupperware makes up for the
Filed under: Newspapers, moves in print publishing sell-off, and then some originally
Magazines, Private equity resume publication of Vibe in Vibe and Creative Loafing: appeared on BloggingStocks on
Vibe Media Group, publisher of N o v e m b e r a s a q u a r t e r l y Private equity moves in print Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:20:00 EST.
hip-hop magazine Vibe, shut down magazine. The operations of Vibe publishing originally appeared on Please see our terms for use of
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Partners, a private equity firm. has been named as the new editor-
InterMedia said it plans to in-chief of Vibe, and the new
18 Business/ Economy/
U.S. health care reform: The
view from France
By Joseph Lazzaro
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 8/25/2009 6:00:00 PM
Filed under: Forecasts, Politics
My Armenian cousin Madeline
called from France, as is her wont,
monthly. (Madeline keeps me
plugged into goings-in in Europe,
economically-speaking, and
otherwise.)
"Whats tort avec vous, les
Américains? Votre système de
soins de santé est en retard,
inefficace, irrationnel!" Madeline
said. ("What's wrong with you
Americans? Your health care
system is backward, inefficient,
irrational!")
I agreed. The United States
spends more per person on health
care than any advanced,
industrialized democracy, and it
still has 47 million uninsured
people.
Continue reading U.S. health
Fannie and Freddie Shares Soar Though
Value in Question
(Financial Sector and Stocks
Analysis from Seeking Alpha)
Submitted at 8/26/2009 5:00:35 AM
It’s very hard to come up with
scenarios where they’re worth any
money. There’s a tremendous
amount of sentiment trading in
general.
(Source:“Fannie, Freddie Shares
Soar, Puzzling Analysts: Stocks
Considered To Have No Value”,
The Washington Post, August 25)
This is probably the best
example of the kind of speculative
mania driving the stock market
right now. These stocks are purely
Wall Street mixed in choppy trading
(Financial Times - US
homepage)
Submitted at 8/26/2009 7:28:11 AM
US stocks fluctuated on
Wednesday morning as investors
digested mixed economic data.
A disappointing reading on
durable goods orders during July
weighed on industrial stocks,
which were the morning’s weakest
sector. Although the headline
figure was significantly better than
expected, analysts focused on the
figure which excluded
transportation orders, discounting
the temporary effect of the
government’s “cash for clunkers”
care reform: The view from France programme.
U.S. health care reform: The That number was worse than
view from France originally e x p e c t e d , w h i c h t r i g g e r e d
appeared on BloggingStocks on widespread selling in the industrial
Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:00:00 EST. sector. Caterpillar, the machinery
Please see our terms for use of maker, dropped 1 per cent to
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Comments manufacturing conglomerate, lost
0.6 per cent to $37.28.
General Electric was also caught
up in the selling, in spite of news
that Kuwait had selected the
company to build a $2.7bn power
plant in the north of the country.
Its shares slipped 0.8 per cent to
$14.19.
But this was mitigated by a sharp
rise in monthly sales of new
homes, which boosted the
homebuilding sector, raising those
stocks further above their recent
2009 highs. Lennar gained 3.6 per
cent to $15.50 and DR Horton
climbed 3.5 per cent to $13.51.
After less than an hour of trade,
speculative vehicles with no the benchmark S&P 500 index was
intrinsic value and yet traders are up a fraction at 1,028.28, while the
buying them up in massive Dow Jones Industrial Average rose
volumes as a kind of bizarre call 0.1 per cent to 9,545.18 and the
option. Nasdaq Composite index gained
0.2 per cent to 2,028.39.
The markets struggled under a
further dip in the price of oil
however, which dropped sharply
on Tuesday and continued to drift
on Wednesday, losing $1.30 to
$70.75 per barrel of US crude.
This weighed on energy producers,
with ExxonMobil giving up 0.1
per cent to $70.59 and rival energy
producer ConocoPhillips falling
0.4 per cent to $44.83.
“Commodity shares could find a
headwind with Chinese stocks soft
and crude oil finding resistance at
$75,” wrote Nick Kalivas, an
analyst at MF Global.
Financial stocks were also down
in the early session in spite of the
housing data as well as figures
showing that mortgage
applications rose last week,
defying a rise in mortgage rates.
Signs of stabilisation in the
housing market have lifted banks
to the forefront of the recent rally,
but they slipped on Wednesday as
investors took an opportunity to
take profits off the table. Citigroup
declined 1.3 per cent to $4.69 and
JPMorgan lost 0.2 per cent to
$43.48.
Morgan Stanley drifted 1 per
cent to $29.88, even as rumours
intensified surrounding the sale of
its Van Kampen investment unit,
with Bloomberg reporting that the
bank has approached at least three
other asset managers with offers of
a possible partnership or sale.
Retailers were higher in the early
session, building on the gains
made during Tuesday on the back
of an unexpectedly sharp rise in
consumer confidence for August.
Budget retailers were especially
strong, carried by the momentum
from the previous session, when
Big Lots reported better earnings
than expected. The company was
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one of Tuesday’s strongest
performers and rose again on
Wednesday morning, picking up
4.1 per cent to $26.65. Rival
Family Dollar climbed 4.7 per cent
to $31.19.
Williams-Sonoma, the
kitchenware retailer, jumped after
it reported a surprise profit and
said that tight inventory control
would see it earn more over the
year than previously forecast. The
sharp cost cuts mitigated slumping
sales at the company, which also
owns the Pottery Barn furnishings
chain, and the shares rose 14.8 per
cent to $17.76.
There was positive news in the
cable providers sector after
JPMorgan rated both Comcast and
Time Warner Cable as
“overweight”. The bank said the
sector did not have the problems
faced by telecoms companies,
which are competing for market
share in the increasingly
competitive wireless industry.
Comcast gained 0.4 per cent to
$15.27 and TWC picked up 0.9 per
cent to $36.10.
European stocks were down
early on Wall Street, with the
FTSE Eurofirst 300 index losing
0.8 per cent to 971.42. Asian
equity markets closed mainly
higher, led by a 1.4 per cent rise in
the Nikkei 225 to 10,640.
Bond yields were lower, with the
yields on both the two-year and 10
-year Treasury notes both losing 1
per cent to 1.047 per cent and
3.427 per cent respectively.
The dollar was stronger against
major currencies early in New
York, gaining 0.9 per cent against
the pound to $1.62.
Gold was trading $0.20 lower at
$942.90 per troy ounce.
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Senator Edward Kennedy dies at 77
(Financial Times - US
homepage)
Submitted at 8/25/2009 11:13:22 PM
Edward Kennedy, who died on
Tuesday night from the
consequences of a brain tumour at
the age of 77, surely found
political and personal redemption
in the end. He did not fulfil the
ambitions of his dynastic family by
becoming president of the United
States, as one brother did and as
another might have, both victims
of the assassin’s bullets, but he
became a lion of the US Senate,
liked and admired by friend and
foe alike.
His legislative record, touching
domestic subjects as vital as
immigration, healthcare and
education, was second to none. As
the country drifted to the right over
the past 30 years, his was the
distinctive and loudest voice of the
liberalism born in Franklin D.
Roosevelt’s New Deal. Yet, as
politics became more bitterly
partisan, he worked across party
lines, forming alliances with the
most improbable opponents,
including even his polar opposite,
President George W. Bush.
He campaigned as tirelessly as
his health would permit for the
election of Barack Obama,
delivering a typically fiery speech
at the Democratic party convention
in Denver last summer. It was
bitter-sweet, to put it mildly, that
he was stricken at the
congressional lunch for the new
president, a man who has staked
out new bi-partisan ground.
His private life moved to a
comparable maturity. The once
callow, even reckless, young man
who seared the name
Chappaquiddick into the nation’s
memory was transformed into the
benign and caring patriarch of a
large and impossibly glamourous
family that knew more than its
share of tragedy and scandal over
the years.
In retrospect, it is easy to see the
turning point in his political life –
his defeat at the hands of
incumbent president Jimmy Carter
in the race for the Democratic
party’s nomination in 1980. Before
that, he had been the king-in-
waiting, who had seriously thought
about running in 1968 and had sat
out the next two elections because
of Chappaquiddick, in which he
was involved in the death by
drowning of a young female
political aide in the summer of
1969.
But failure to unhorse an
unpopular incumbent, who was
later soundly beaten by Ronald
Reagan in the general election,
seems to have forced a sea change.
He rededicated his life to the
Senate, and to his family, later
bolstered by a happy second
marriage to Victoria Reggie.
Edward Moore Kennedy was
born on February 22, 1932, the
youngest of the nine children of
Joseph and Rose Kennedy. His
father was a hard-driving Boston
financier, and notorious
philanderer, whose ambitions for
his children knew no bounds. The
oldest son was killed in the second
world war, but John and Robert
responded to the call.
JFK, a senator from
Massachusetts since 1952, was
elected president in 1960 but killed
in Dallas in 1963. RFK was his
brother’s attorney general, then a
senator from New York, and was
the likely Democratic nominee in
1968 before also falling victim to
assassination.
Ted followed more tentatively in
his brothers’ footsteps. Privately
educated at elite New England
schools, he was expelled from
Harvard for cheating in 1951,
enlisted into the army, re-entered
Harvard and graduated in 1956. He
subsequently earned a law degree
from the University of Virginia. In
1958, he married Virginia Joan
Bennett, with whom he had two
sons and a daughter.
In that year, he managed JFK’s
successful re-election campaign to
the Senate and in 1962 succeeded
to his brother’s seat, which had
been kept warm for him by a
family friend until he reached the
minimum age of 30. He was
returned seven more times, often
with token or no opposition – so
powerful was the Kennedy name
in Massachusetts.
In 1964, he almost lost his life in
a plane crash, having been pulled
from the wreckage by Senator
Birch Bayh of Indiana. Though
incapacitated for months, he still
made an early mark in the Senate
with his work on the landmark
immigration act of 1965, which
scrapped the 60-year-old quotas
heavily tilted towards Europeans
wanting to come to the US.
RFK’s death hit him especially
hard. The loss of a brother, to
whom he was very close was also
the loss of a mentor. He thought
hard about picking up his torch in
1968, but concluded that he was
too young, just a year older than
the minimum statutory
requirement to become president.
Chappaquiddick changed his
political calculus.
After a summer party on the
weekend when man first landed on
the moon, he drove his car off the
bridge linking Chappaquiddick
Island with Martha’s Vineyard. He
swam to safety but his passenger,
the 28-year-old Mary Jo
Kopechne, did not escape.
There were suspicions that
Kennedy had been drinking and
about the nature of the relationship
between a married senator and an
attractive young woman. He
claimed to have tried to rescue her
but failed. But he did not report the
incident to the police. For that he
later received a two-months
suspended sentence, a judgment so
light that it was widely assumed to
have been obtained by Kennedy
family influence. Standing by him
in court was his pregnant wife,
Joan, who had already suffered
two miscarriages and was to lose
the baby she was then carrying.
The scandal dominated the news
for months and its lingering effect
induced him not to run for
president in 1972 and 1976. An
additional factor was surely
frequent news reports of his night
time carousing and general
dissolution.
But four years later he thought
the time was ripe. Mr Carter was
unpopular and seemed powerless
when the US embassy in Tehran
was stormed and more than 50
diplomats were taken hostage by
the revolutionary regime headed
by Ayatollah Khomeini. Senator
Kennedy declared his candidacy in
the spring.
But he got off to an inauspicious
start and never recovered. In a
CBS television interview
conducted by Roger Mudd, who
happened to be an old friend, he
appeared unable to answer the
simple question of why he wanted
to be president. Thereafter, as the
hostage crisis went through any
number of unpredictable twists and
turns, including a failed rescue
attempt, Mr Carter’s popularity
picked up enough to enable him to
win most of the primaries.
Kennedy, however, never
conceded and took his fight, and
his delegates, all the way to the
Economy/ 19
convention in New York, where he
duly lost. But he then delivered a
rousing speech under the rubric
“the cause goes on”, a paean to
liberalism that had the assembled
multitude on their feet and roaring
approval.
Thereafter he devoted himself to
politics and to his family, both
equally demanding. Though
Catholic, his troubled marriage to
Joan, an alcoholic, ended in
divorce in 1982. Two of their
children, Edward Jr and Kara,
suffered from cancer. The death in
a plane crash of John F Kennedy
Jr, JFK’s oldest son, in 1999,
added to the long history of family
tragedy, as did the various
problems of other relatives. In
1992, the senator married again, to
Victoria Reggie, a divorced lawyer
with two children of her own.
But the Senate was now his
element, and he revelled in it, both
when the Democrats were in the
majority and when they were not.
In 1987, he was the most vocal
critic of the Supreme Court
nomination of Robert Bork, the
conservative jurist and ideologue
whom the senate refused to
confirm. He also opposed the later
successful nominations of David
Souter, who ironically was to
become one of the more liberal
justices, and Clarence Thomas, the
African American rightwinger.
His hand appeared to be in
virtually every piece of legislation,
aided by a staff that was, and is,
widely reckoned to be unmatched
in talent on Capitol Hill. His
principal causes remained
immigration, lifting the minimum
wage, healthcare, education, the
environment and everything to do
with the administration of justice.
And for all his reputation as the
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20 Economy/
Business.view: Froth at the bottom of the pyramid
(The Economist: Daily
columns)
Submitted at 8/25/2009 5:00:24 AM
Business.view
Aug 25th 2009
From Economist.com Is
microfinance going the same way
as subprime mortgages?
THE notion, popularised by C.K.
Prahalad’s best-seller, “ The
Fortune at the Bottom of the
Pyramid”, that poor people should
be seen as potentially profitable
customers rather than mere charity
cases, has caught on fast in the
past few years. Finding profitable
ways to meet the needs of poor
people, the idea goes, would not
only empower them by making
them customers rather than
supplicants, it would also attract
far more capital than would ever
be forthcoming from charity. For
the providers of this capital,
catering to the bottom of the
pyramid promised to be good for
the soul as well as the wallet.
A growing number of investors
have taken the chance, investing in
bottom-of-the-pyramid businesses,
of which by far the most popular to
date is microfinance—providing
loans and other financial services
to people ignored as too poor by
the traditional banking system. Yet
as this idea has spread, it has
become increasingly controversial.
The first line of attack, taken up
by such luminaries as Muhammad
Yunus, the Nobel Peace prize-
winning founder of the non-profit
microfinance institution, Grameen
Bank, is to accuse for-profit
providers of charging their poor
customers too much.
Compartamos Banco, a Mexican
microfinance firm that had a
successful initial public offering
(IPO) in 2007, has been denounced
by Mr Yunus and others for
charging interest rates of close to
100% a year.
Now a second line of attack has
been launched, in which for-profit
microfinance firms are accused of
lending recklessly to people too
poor to repay the loans. An article
in the Wall Street Journal on
August 13th, “ A Global Surge in
Tiny Loans Spurs Credit Bubble in
a Slum”, reported on a “repayment
revolt” by over-indebted borrowers
in the Indian shanty town of
Ramanagaram, in the state of
Karnataka, which had been “carpet
-bombed” with loans from
microfinance firms. This, the
article continued, was evidence of
a “credit crisis brewing” in
microfinance. Moreover, it
continued, ominously, “many of
the problems in Indian
microlending might sound familiar
to students of the US mortgage
crisis.”
Are microfinance loans the new
subprime mortgages? The Journal
article certainly contains plenty of
echoes of the American mortgage-
lending binge in the middle of this
decade, including loans made
without any proof of income from
borrowers by loan officers on
commission. And, in contrast to
the classic image of microfinance
as a source of credit for
“microentrepreneurs” to expand
their small businesses and thus
grow their way out of poverty, it
also described loans being used to
finance shopping sprees, or to pay
off loans from other lenders,
including loan sharks.
Moreover, claims of a bubble are
particularly worrying in India at
the moment, as it has recently
overtaken Latin America as the
world’s most dynamic
microfinance market, especially
for for-profit microfinance. Some
22m Indians are now served by
microfinance institutions, and
outstanding credit has been
growing at over 50% a year.
In a lengthy response to the
article, Vikram Akula, founder of
SKS, one of India’s largest
microfinance lenders, complained
that it was “unbalanced and
misleading”, making an “absurd”
sweeping generalisation based on
anecdotal information from one
neighbourhood. Mr Akula would
say that, especially as his for-profit
firm, backed by venture capital
from Silicon Valley, is expected to
go public soon in a doubtless
lucrative IPO. But he makes a
compelling case nonetheless.
First, microfinance institutions in
India have repayment rates of over
95% (in SKS’s case, 99%), which
suggests that only a small
proportion of borrowers are
struggling with the debt they have
taken on. Second, repayment
problems in Ramanagaram may
reflect specific local issues,
ranging from a cyclical downturn
in the silk industry to patriarchal
opposition to the financial
empowerment of women (who
account for a majority of
borrowers from microfinance
outfits around the world).
According to the Journal, there
was strong opposition to
microfinance from Muslim clerics
in the town.
Moreover, the authors of an
academic study cited in the article
themselves admit that it was
“difficult” for them to tell the
difference between a rise in credit
due to excessive supply or surging
demand. And if borrowers are
using their loans to pay off other
loans that charge higher interest
rates, “this is not necessarily a bad
thing”. Quite.
As for comparisons with
America’s subprime mortgage
mess, Mr Akula claims that the
majority of Indian microfinance
institutions, including SKS, do not
incentivise their loan officers to
make larger loans. SKS requires
all its borrowers to undertake three
hours of “financial-literacy
training”, and to pass a test
showing that they understand
interest rates, loan instalments and
other product features, before the
loan is made. Although Mr Akula
concedes that not all microfinance
lenders are as thorough in ensuring
that their borrowers are capable of
repaying, there may be lessons
here for lenders in America and
other rich countries.
Indeed, contrary to the frothy
picture painted in the Journal
article, one of the reasons that for-
profit investors have become
interested in microfinance is the
evidence that its performance has
been far more predictable than
many other sorts of lending
(although some international
investors have been caught out by
ignoring warnings about the
exchange-rate risk of foreign
microfinance securities).
Weighing up the evidence,
Jonathan Morduch of New York
University, a co-author of “
Portfolios of the Poor”, an
excellent new book on the finances
of people in the developing world,
says that “the problem of a
microcredit bubble should not be
dismissed”. Lenders operate with
very limited information—there is
an urgent need for credit bureaus
in the developing world—and so
do sometimes over-lend. Even Mr
Yunus’s non-profit Grameen Bank
had a repayment crisis in the late
1990s in part because it was
“moving too much money out of
the door too quickly—and their
clients couldn’t absorb it,” says Mr
Morduch.
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Moreover, he predicts that “there
will likely be a big microfinance
failure some place, bigger than
what we have seen to date.” Yet,
Mr Morduch concludes, although
today there may be localised
bubbles in microfinance, “I don’t
see any evidence at all for
something like a global bubble.”
Indeed, the real story of the past
year may be of a regrettable
slowdown in the growth of
microfinance. According to
ACCION International, a global
network of microfinance schemes,
although there are isolated pockets
of frothy lending—in Bosnia and
Nicaragua, for example—the
microfinance industry has not been
entirely immune from the credit
crisis, and growth has slowed due
to weaker demand and funding
difficulties.
The bottom line at the bottom of
the pyramid is that financial
services remain shockingly scarce.
“I have a hard time to see how
there can be a bubble when the
microfinance industry still has not
served 90% of its clients,” says
Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, a
former chairman of ACCION and
now chairman of Compartamos
Banco. He estimates that there are
currently 100m microfinance
clients out of one billion poor
people who want access to
financial services.
Mr Rodríguez thinks that
occasional local bubbles may even
be better than bubble-free growth.
“It is great to have a gold rush
because that is the only way to
develop a competitive industry.
When entrepreneurs rush into an
industry, you get innovation,
efficiencies, more product
offerings and better pricing, with
the ultimate beneficiary being the
BUSINESS.VIEW: page 21
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Edward Kennedy: Last of the clan
(The Economist: News
analysis)
Submitted at 8/26/2009 12:47:43 AM
Edward Kennedy
Aug 26th 2009
From Economist.com Edward
Kennedy, a liberal champion, has
died. Who could fill the gap he has
left?
BRAIN cancer, diagnosed last
May, killed Edward Kennedy on
Tuesday August 25th. America's
liberal lion, famous in later years
for his girth, his flushed face and
his mane of white hair, had been ill
and largely out of Senate action for
months. But when he did appear,
he was unafraid of linking what he
called the biggest political issue of
his life to his own circumstances.
“Over the last year, I’ve seen our
health-care system up close. I've
benefited from the best of
medicine, but I've also witnessed
the frustration and outrage of
patients and doctors alike as they
face the challenges of a system
that shortchanges millions of
Americans,” he wrote in the
Boston Globe. He was as keen as
ever to join the fight for reform,
but had to leave it to the man he so
helpfully endorsed when he was
just a hopeful senator from Illinois,
Barack Obama.
Mr Kennedy's status stemmed
mostly from being part of the
Kennedy clan: the three apparently
charmed brothers, Robert, Edward
and John. His brand of liberal
politics was much closer to
Robert's keen idealism (cruelly
curtailed in 1968 as he campaigned
for the Democratic nomination)
than to JFK's more pragmatic
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By Sean Fallon (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 8/25/2009 6:20:00 PM
style. Edward was sworn in as a
senator in 1962 and, by
comparison with his brothers,
seemed colourless. But after
Bobby's assassination, now the
lone Kennedy remaining, his
standing was such that the polls
suggested the Democratic Party
would win the election against
Richard Nixon if he was included
on the ticket. That was before an
accident at Chappaquiddick in
1969, the death of the passenger in
his car, Mary Jo Kopechne, and his
own failure to explain what had
happened, drew attention to his
inability to cope in a crisis.
That incident took some
recovering from, both personally
and politically. But Mr Kennedy
became a vocal opponent of the
war in Vietnam, and a champion of
the poor. (He described his vote
against authorising the Iraq war as
“the best vote I have ever cast” in
the Senate.) He was also arguably
the last in a long line of “fighting
liberal” urban politicians from the
mid-20th century such as Estes
Kefauver, Adlai Stevenson,
Edmund Muskie, George
McGovern and Paul Wellstone:
men who refused to compromise
or triangulate in the Clinton style,
and who made no apology for their
beliefs.
Mr Kennedy's own run for the
White House came in 1980. The
liberal fighter stormed all the way
to the floor of the Democratic
convention that year to try to wrest
the nomination from Jimmy
Carter, a sitting president. Some
still think the damage done then
proved fatal to Mr Carter in the
general election in November,
Forty-two. It takes forty-two
Brompton folding bikes to fill a
parking space. One of the world's
which was won by Ronald Reagan.
But Mr Kennedy did great damage
to his own campaign when he gave
a television interview after the
Iranian revolution in which he tore
into the deposed Shah of Iran for
stealing “umpteen billion dollars”.
The revolutionaries hailed him as
their champion. A New York
tabloid ran the headline “Teddy is
the Toast of Tehran”.
Uncompromising liberalism of that
sort may never be seen again in
American politics. In his later
career, though, Mr Kennedy
forged bipartisan coalitions to push
for legislation he supported. He
and George Bush became almost
friendly during the president's push
for education and immigration
reform.
A special election in
Massachusetts will find a
replacement for Mr Kennedy. It
seems likely to be won by a
Democrat. The state is historically
and reliably Democratic, and Mr
Kennedy’s many adoring voters
can hardly be expected to vote for
a Republican in the midst of the
health-care and other debates. The
seat matters. Until it is filled, the
Democrats will lack the crucial 60
senators needed to break a
filibuster. As for who will run, that
is less certain.
Mr Kennedy wanted his wife,
Vicky, to succeed him. But the
Kennedy family seems to be
something of a spent force. Teddy
was the last of the greats. His
niece, Caroline Kennedy, failed in
her quasi-campaign to be
appointed to Hillary Clinton’s
vacated Senate seat in New York.
No other member of that
great mysteries is finally solved. [
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generation has the stature of the
three idolised brothers.
Outside the clan, a leading
candidate would be Barney Frank,
also from Massachusets, a less
glamorous, slightly more bruising
version of Mr Kennedy in the
House. (He recently energised
sullen Democrats by asking a
questioner who compared Mr
Obama to Hitler “On what planet
do you spend most of your time?”)
Mr Frank is also the first openly
gay member of Congress. No other
figure is a household name. Late in
his illness, Mr Kennedy requested
a change in the law so that the
(Democratic) governor, Deval
Patrick, could quickly name his
replacement. But even that change
would have to wait until the
Massachusetts legislature comes
back in the second week of
September.
In the meantime, not only is
Massachusetts short of one
senator; the Democratic Party in
Congress is without a liberal
anchor. The leaders in both houses
of Congress, Nancy Pelosi in the
House and Harry Reid in the
Senate, are unpopular and widely
criticised. But Mr Kennedy,
despite his pugnacious liberal
reputation, wrote many bills with
Republican colleagues, too. No
member of the party’s left has that
ability to bang out a deal across the
aisle. Mr Kennedy, both adored
and loathed as a personality, was a
prolific legislator. His will be a
hard act to follow.
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continued from page 20
customers.” As he points out,
“before the Compartamos IPO,
there were 200 microfinance
institutions in Mexico, today there
are 800. Which is great!”
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comments
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views.
The Kennedy Family
Speaks out About Ted
Kennedy's Passing
(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 8/26/2009 3:00:00 AM
Massachusetts Senator Edward
M. Kennedy passed away Tuesday
night at age 77 after a long battle
with a brain tumor. Now, the
Kennedy family is speaking out
about the tragic loss.
The Kennedy family released the
following statement.
"Edward M. Kennedy – the
husband, father, grandfather,
brother and uncle we loved so
deeply – died late Tuesday night at
home in Hyannis Port. We've lost
the irreplaceable center of our
family and joyous light in our
lives, but the inspiration of his
faith, optimism, and perseverance
will live on in our hearts forever.
We thank everyone who gave him
care and support over this last
year, and everyone who stood with
him for so many years in his
tireless march for progress toward
justice, fairness and opportunity
for all. He loved this country and
devoted his life to serving it. He
always believed that our best days
were still ahead, but it’s hard to
imagine any of them without him."
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CIA and torture: In the cold light of day

(The Economist: News officer blew cigarette smoke into policymakers from the Bush what information). Opinion polls Don’t Want to Let Go of
analysis) prisoners’ faces for minutes on administration should also be held suggest that many Americans
Submitted at 8/25/2009 12:19:30 AM end, inducing them to vomit. accountable for giving orders that remain ambivalent about, or even Your Ex? Yes, There
Another put a detainee in a sanctioned other brutal tactics, cautiously supportive of, Mr Are Apps for That
CIA and torture pressure-hold, blocking the arteries including the use of Cheney’s position.
Aug 25th 2009 to his brain, repeatedly making “waterboarding” (making a Mr Obama has tried to balance
[Video]
From Economist.com Details are him pass out. prisoner believe that he is the pro- and anti-prosecution By Ben Parr (Mashable!)
published of abusive interrogations Threats were also common. Mr drowning), sleep deprivation, stances, but he risks looking as if Submitted at 8/25/2009 8:40:33 PM
by CIA staff. Prosecutions could Nashiri was told that “We can stress positions and slamming he wants to have it both ways. On
follow bring your family in here”, prisoners into walls. By focusing Monday his spokesman, Bill There’s an app for just about
BARACK OBAMA has said that speaking the Arabic dialect of a on the illegal activity of officers Burton, continued to insist that the everything. They can save your
he does not want to dwell on country, the name of which is who were under pressure in the president wants to focus on the life, stream live TV, help you with
whether the CIA previously censored, to encourage him to field, prosecutors are neglecting future. But he also stressed that Mr school, locate marijuana, and even
t o r t u r e d p r i s o n e r s d u r i n g believe that interrogators would what was declared to be legal by Obama had always expected that improve your sex life. Yes, those
interrogations in secret prisons sexually abuse his female relatives policymakers in Washington. Mr Holder would be independent. Apple commercials are telling the
overseas. The Department of in front of him. Khalid Sheikh Human-rights activists and the The latter’s job is a politically truth when they say “there’s an
Justice, however, is proposing to Muhammad, the man thought to be CIA, in an unusual alignment of ticklish one. He is a presidential app for that.”
do just that. On Monday August the mastermind of the September interests, suggest it would be appointee, but is also the country’s Now a “leaked” Apple
24th it released a report on the 11th 2001 terrorist attacks, was unfair if only lower-level most senior law-enforcement commercial has surfaced on the
agency’s “interrogation activities” similarly told that his children personnel were punished. official, not the president’s lawyer. series of tubes we call the Internet.
that was written by the CIA’s would be killed if another attack Another set of critics, He says that the clarity of the law It shows how you can effectively
internal watchdog in 2004. In took place in the United States. conservatives who do not consider and the nature of the abuses legally stalk your ex-girlfriend or
addition the attorney-general, Eric These and other abuses described that the techniques used by forced him to act. boyfriend with iPhone apps.
Holder, announced that a special in the report are illegal under interrogators amount to torture, say If torture trials were to go ahead, Luckily, the parody commercial’s
prosecutor will decide whether a American law, and were not it is inappropriate in any case to re- they would provide a noisy and “stalk-her,” “call-her,” “calend-
full criminal investigation is authorised. Mr Holder said that a open the possibility of sensational scene as there has her” and “law-her” iPhone apps
warranted into the activities of special prosecutor, John Durham, prosecutions. Dick Cheney, the never before been a federal torture don’t actually exist. Still, if there
CIA staff and contractors. who has also been investigating former vice-president who was prosecution in the country. Such isn’t an app for finding a lawyer
The CIA report includes some the destruction of interrogation involved in the creation of what prosecutions would risk becoming who can fight restraining orders,
unpleasant new details. Ever since tapes by the CIA, will now the administration called a big distraction from Mr Obama’s it’s probably coming really soon.
photographs emerged in 2004 consider whether prosecutions of “enhanced interrogation attempts to focus energy on reform It’s simply the most entertaining
showing the abuse of inmates by interrogators would be appropriate. techniques”, has said flatly that of health-care provision and other iPhone app commercial parody
American guards in Abu Ghraib Mr Obama, despite his wish to they provided valuable intelligence domestic policy. But as details of yet. So we’ll just end with the
prison in Iraq, fresh revelations look forward, has said that he against potential terrorist attacks. abuses continue to come out, the words of the video’s creator,
have lost some of their ability to would support the prosecution of The agency released two other need for a proper reckoning with Adam Sacks:
shock. But the report includes officers who clearly went beyond reports, from 2004 and 2005, the past will only grow. “There really is an app for almost
examples of unedifying behaviour. what they were told to do. describing the intelligence Back to top ^^ Readers' anything, even when there
Interrogators threatened one That could mean that only lower- gathered and the terrorists captured comments shouldn’t be.”
prisoner, Abd al-Rahim al Nashiri, level CIA staff, and perhaps as a result of the interrogation The Economist welcomes your Maybe this is why Apple has its
with a pistol and power-drill, as civilian contractors, would appear programme (although the reports views. App Store review process.
they accused him of being part of in the dock. That would infuriate did not specify which techniques, Anyway, we hope you enjoy:
the bombing of the American many critics of CIA activity in including non-abusive question- Tags: iphone, iphone app
destroyer USS Cole, in 2000. One r e c e n t y e a r s , w h o s a y t h a t and-answer sessions, had produced
Kate Gosselin is Coming to 'The View'
(ETonline - Breaking News) Plus 8" mom Kate Gosselin will sit national television-- is set to guest who is on maternity leave after
Submitted at 8/26/2009 6:33:00 AM in with the ladies of "The View." host on the show September 14 having her third child. Other guest
Kate -- who grabbed tabloid and 15. hosts scheduled to appear on "The
After appearing on " Larry King attention with the announcement The reality show mom will be View" include Meghan McCain
Live" Tuesday night, "Jon & Kate of her split from husband Jon on filling in for Elisabeth Hasselbeck, and La Toya Jackson.
Internet News Record Economy/ Social Net/ TechTips/ 23

CIA and torture: In the cold light of day

(The Economist: News officer blew cigarette smoke into policymakers from the Bush what information). Opinion polls
analysis) prisoners’ faces for minutes on administration should also be held suggest that many Americans
Submitted at 8/25/2009 12:19:30 AM end, inducing them to vomit. accountable for giving orders that remain ambivalent about, or even
Another put a detainee in a sanctioned other brutal tactics, cautiously supportive of, Mr
CIA and torture pressure-hold, blocking the arteries including the use of Cheney’s position.
Aug 25th 2009 to his brain, repeatedly making “waterboarding” (making a Mr Obama has tried to balance
From Economist.com Details are him pass out. prisoner believe that he is the pro- and anti-prosecution
published of abusive interrogations Threats were also common. Mr drowning), sleep deprivation, stances, but he risks looking as if
by CIA staff. Prosecutions could Nashiri was told that “We can stress positions and slamming he wants to have it both ways. On
follow bring your family in here”,
BARACK OBAMA has said that speaking the Arabic dialect of a
prisoners into walls. By focusing
on the illegal activity of officers
Monday his spokesman, Bill
Burton, continued to insist that the
Facebook Changes
he does not want to dwell on country, the name of which is
whether the CIA previously censored, to encourage him to
who were under pressure in the
field, prosecutors are neglecting
president wants to focus on the
future. But he also stressed that Mr
Ad Ratings,
t o r t u r e d p r i s o n e r s d u r i n g believe that interrogators would what was declared to be legal by Obama had always expected that Extends Top Bar
interrogations in secret prisons sexually abuse his female relatives policymakers in Washington. Mr Holder would be independent.
overseas. The Department of in front of him. Khalid Sheikh Human-rights activists and the The latter’s job is a politically By Stan Schroeder
Justice, however, is proposing to Muhammad, the man thought to be CIA, in an unusual alignment of ticklish one. He is a presidential (Mashable!)
do just that. On Monday August the mastermind of the September interests, suggest it would be appointee, but is also the country’s Submitted at 8/26/2009 1:12:23 AM

24th it released a report on the 11th 2001 terrorist attacks, was unfair if only lower-level most senior law-enforcement
agency’s “interrogation activities” similarly told that his children Facebook has introduced two
personnel were punished. official, not the president’s lawyer. minor changes to its interface
that was written by the CIA’s would be killed if another attack Another set of critics, He says that the clarity of the law
internal watchdog in 2004. In took place in the United States. today. They’ve changed the blue
conservatives who do not consider and the nature of the abuses legally bar on top of the page;
addition the attorney-general, Eric These and other abuses described that the techniques used by forced him to act.
Holder, announced that a special in the report are illegal under furthermore, they’ve slightly
interrogators amount to torture, say If torture trials were to go ahead, altered the way ad ratings work.
prosecutor will decide whether a American law, and were not it is inappropriate in any case to re- they would provide a noisy and
full criminal investigation is authorised. Mr Holder said that a Before, you had little thumbs
open the possibility of sensational scene as there has up/down icons below every
warranted into the activities of special prosecutor, John Durham, prosecutions. Dick Cheney, the never before been a federal torture
CIA staff and contractors. advertisement. Now, Facebook has
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The CIA report includes some the destruction of interrogation involved in the creation of what prosecutions would risk becoming
unpleasant new details. Ever since tapes by the CIA, will now the ad (below) or to turn it off via
the administration called a big distraction from Mr Obama’s an “x” at the top right corner. It’s
photographs emerged in 2004 consider whether prosecutions of “enhanced interrogation attempts to focus energy on reform
showing the abuse of inmates by interrogators would be appropriate. not groundbreaking by any means,
techniques”, has said flatly that of health-care provision and other but it does make the page a little
American guards in Abu Ghraib Mr Obama, despite his wish to they provided valuable intelligence domestic policy. But as details of
prison in Iraq, fresh revelations look forward, has said that he less cluttered.
against potential terrorist attacks. abuses continue to come out, the The other change is very
have lost some of their ability to would support the prosecution of The agency released two other need for a proper reckoning with
shock. But the report includes officers who clearly went beyond straightforward: the blue bar on the
reports, from 2004 and 2005, the past will only grow. top, one of Facebook’s most
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prisoner, Abd al-Rahim al Nashiri, level CIA staff, and perhaps as a result of the interrogation The Economist welcomes your
with a pistol and power-drill, as civilian contractors, would appear width of the page. I’ll probably get
programme (although the reports views. used to it soon, but for some
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the bombing of the American many critics of CIA activity in reason I liked the old version
including non-abusive question- more. Reviews: Facebook
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Best Video-Sharing Site: YouTube [Hive Five Followup]
By Jason Fitzpatrick vote in last week's Hive Five. It Coming in second with a very was Dailymotion.
(Lifehacker) should come as no surprise given strong showing was For more information on each of
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Banking on Banks: Detailed Option Strangle

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President Barack Obama
Signs of life on Loss of 'greatest
United States Senator of
(The Economist: News second quarter, while imports crisis, a solid recovery will require for developed nations. There will
analysis) plummeted by more than 25.3%. both positive developments at be a moderate improvement in our Time'
Submitted at 8/25/2009 1:54:01 AM Investment fell by 10.1%, with a home and abroad. Broadly exports in 2010, but growth will be
9.6% rise in public investment, speaking, there are three crucial slow. (ETonline - Breaking News)
Aug 25th 2009 primarily in infrastructure factors to consider. The third factor is the possibility Submitted at 8/26/2009 4:00:00 AM
From the Economist Intelligence construction, outweighed by a 16% The first is government that political tensions will smother
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political instability could cause government spending, which rose (US$3.4bn) into the economy relatively calm since April, both Wednesday morning to the family
more economic damage by 5.9%. Although government during the first half of 2009 as part sides in a political struggle pitting of Senator Edward M. Kennedy
Thailand's economy contracted consumption is a relatively small of an emergency stimulus package. supporters and opponents of who he proclaims is the "greatest
at a slower pace in the second component of total GDP (thus the On August 18th the cabinet Thaksin Shinawatra, a former United States Senator of our time."
quarter, suggesting that an end is positive growth did not contribute approved a new three-year prime minister, have repeatedly " Michelle and I were
in sight to the country's first much to the overall change in spending package worth Bt1.1trn, staged massive, destabilising heartbroken to learn this morning
recession in over a decade. Real G D P ) , t h e g o v e r n m e n t ' s much of which will be spent on protests. With the root causes of of the death of our dear friend,
GDP fell by 4.9% year on year in e x p a n s i o n a r y f i s c a l p o l i c y infrastructure, healthcare and the political struggle still Senator Ted Kennedy," Obama
April-June, compared with a drop ( t h r o u g h v a r i o u s s t i m u l u s education. However, the unresolved, there is a real threat says in his statement. "For five
of 7.1% in the previous quarter. programmes) played a role in government's growing budget that tensions will flare up again, decades, virtually every major
But in seasonally adjusted, quarter- ensuring that private consumption deficits will limit its ability to paralysing the government's piece of legislation to advance the
on-quarter terms, the economy declined by only 2.3%. As well as continue to prop up the economy policymaking efforts. Outlook civil rights, health and economic
grew by 2.3%. Like many other supporting disposable incomes by through greater public spending. If the current relative political well being of the American people
export-dependent economies in the s u b s i d i s i n g e l e c t r i c i t y a n d The second factor is whether calm persists, the NESDB expects bore his name and resulted from
region, however, the outlook transport fares, the government has exports will stage a recovery. This Thailand's to record a GDP his efforts. I valued his wise
remains uncertain, with future distributed several instalments of looks unlikely, given the continued contraction of around 3% in 2009, counsel in the Senate, where,
prospects depending on external "Save the Nation" cheques worth weakness of most developed followed by a return to growth in regardless of the swirl of events,
demand picking up again before Bt2,000 (around US$60) each for economies. The Economist the range of 2-3% in 2010. We he always had time for a new
the effects of government stimulus around 9m low-income earners. Intelligence Unit expects have a slightly more pessimistic colleague. I cherished his
spending wear off. Thailand's The picture looks a bit brighter Thailand's merchandise export view. We are currently forecasting confidence and momentous
simmering political tensions will in quarter-on-quarter comparisons, revenue to contract in 2009, that the economy will contract by support in my race for the
also continue to threaten the which are better for pin-pointing bringing to an end a period of six 4.3% in 2009 as a whole; although Presidency. And even as he waged
nascent recovery. economic turning points. In years of double-digit annual export the economy's performance in the a valiant struggle with a mortal
In year-on-year terms, Thailand's seasonally adjusted, quarter-on- growth, although the import bill second half of the year will illness, I've profited as President
second-quarter economic data quarter terms, the economy will fall at an even faster pace, continue to improve, there will be from his encouragement and
continue to paint a fairly e x p a n d e d b y 2 . 3 % a f t e r reflecting sluggish domestic no rapid recovery. However, we wisdom."
depressing picture. According to contracting by 5.9% in the fourth consumption and investment and forecast growth of 3.3% in 2010, "An important chapter in our
figures released on August 24th by quarter of 2008 and by 1.8% in the reduced global commodity prices. owing to positive changes to our history has come to an end. Our
the National Economic and Social first quarter of 2009. This suggests Thailand's poor export global forecasts. country has lost a great leader,
Development Board (NESDB), that the recession has ended. performance will partly reflect the Back to top ^^ Readers' who picked up the torch of his
exports of goods and services (on a However, just as Thailand's extent to which the country is part comments fallen brothers and became the
national-accounts basis) dropped recession was caused by domestic of a global manufacturing chain The Economist welcomes your greatest United States Senator of
by 21.8% year on year in the problems as well as the global producing goods that are destined views. our time." "And the Kennedy
family has lost their patriarch, a
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3 Smart Things
Time to Change GSEs' Deal with Treasury About Hyperbaric
(Financial Sector and Stocks recovery plan. Changing their deal friendly terms. point, there is no justification for
Analysis from Seeking Alpha) would be a small payback for the
support they have given the
• Eliminating the dividend on
Fannie and Freddie’s preferred
the GSEs to give the U.S. a higher
equity stake for than the banks did.
Chambers
Submitted at 8/26/2009 5:15:07 AM
country and the Administration. stockholders was a failed • Make the Treasury’s preferred By Sascha Zuger (Wired Top
Given Freddie Mac’s ( FRE) • Recognition that placing the experiment on the part of Sec. stock pari passu with existing Stories)
recently reported profitable second GSEs in conservatorship was a Paulson and destroyed the new preferred stock. This is another Submitted at 8/25/2009 9:00:00 PM
quarter earnings, it is time for political attack by led by former issuance market for preferred move to equal the banks’ deal
Treasury Secretary Geithner to Treasury Secretary Paulson and stock. It also hurt many small under TARP 1 // They can take you "down" to
amend the terms of Fannie Mae ( Fed Governor Kevin “Hey, Brah” banks that held Fannie and Freddie • Eliminate asset size restrictions 164 feet.
FNM) and Freddie Mac’s Senior Warsh. preferred stock in their portfolios. on Fannie and Freddie’s mortgage When scuba divers ascend too
Preferred Stock Purchase Plan • Recognition that former • GSE preferred stock is still portfolios. This provision proves fast, nitrogen and other inert gases
w i t h t h e T r e a s u r y t o b e Treasury Secretary Paulson caused primarily owned by small banks. my Republican conspiracy theory accumulated in their blood and
comparable to the preferred stock a decline in the GSEs stock prices When dividends are restored, the for placing the GSEs into tissues (from breathing
purchases the Treasury made in by not outlining the terms under value of the preferred stock will conservatorship. There is no compressed air) can form bubbles,
commercial banks last October which he would provide capital to increase by 10x. This will add reason to shrink the GSEs at this causing "the bends"—anything
under TARP. Reasons to Change t h e G S E s i n t h e J u l y 2 0 0 8 approximately $30 billion in point. We need the GSEs to from joint pain to paralysis.
Fannie and Freddie’s Deal with the legislation. Sec. Paulson then used restored capital to the commercial expand their balance sheets. The Hyperbaric chambers re-create the
Treasury circular reasoning in claiming that banking industry. If banks levered Fed has temporarily stepped into underwater pressure so that the
• Fannie and Freddie should not the GSEs had to be taken over this capital 12x, this raises industry the breached left by the GSEs not body reabsorbs the bubbles; the
have a materially worse deal than because they had low stock prices lending capacity by $360 billion. growing. But, what is going to excess gas can then be exhaled as
the banks just because their deal and couldn’t raise capital. In fact, • The losses by the GSEs since happen when the Fed steps back the pressure inside the chamber is
was cut four weeks before TARP. they couldn’t raise capital because entering conservatorship have been from the mortgage market? We slowly reduced.
• Fannie and Freddie are critical he would not state the terms of a inflated because a) they are mostly need the GSEs to support the 2 // They might help autistic
to the domestic economy as they p o t e n t i a l f u t u r e T r e a s u r y write-downs of deferred tax-assets market as the Fed reduces its kids.
have been the only source of i n v e s t m e n t . which the companies still retain balance sheet. A new study suggests that
mortgage capital for the past 12 • Paulson’s reasoning for the and b) the credit reserve build was The GSEs' deal with the hyperbaric treatment improves
months. harsh treatment of GSE bigger than expected because Sec. Treasury Secretary should be language, eye contact, and social
• The mortgage market will need shareholders was that shareholders Paulson sent the economy into a updated to be similar to the deal interaction. The authors think that
private capital in the future and had to pay for the poor risks taken tailspin by not providing an the banks received under TARP. it works by reducing brain
cannot rely on government support by the companies’ management orderly wind down to Lehman Based on the nobler GSE housing inflammation and boosting blood
forever, so Fannie and Freddie will teams. I disagree since many Brothers. mission, there is an argument that flow.
have to raise more capital in the shareholders were giving advice to Terms to Change they should be treated better than 3 // They're popular with the
future. If the GSEs are going to the respective managements to • Lower preferred stock coupon the banks. The banks have no legs pros.
raise capital in the future, the raise capital and reduce risk. Rich to 5% from 10%. There is no to stand on because the FDIC Yankees pitcher Brian Bruney
Treasury is going to have to treat Pzena was the most outspoken justification for the GSEs to pay a insurance they receive from the traveled with one this season. Bills
existing capital better than its shareholder on this point. Plus, higher coupon than the banks. federal government is a larger receiver Terrell Owens keeps one
current deal with the GSEs. Paulson reversed his position on • Change the Treasury’s warrant subsidy than the implicit guarantee at home. And UFC fighter Rich
• Fannie and Freddie incurred this issue once he was proven from 79.99% of the GSEs’ equity Fannie and Freddie enjoy. Franklin sleeps in one. The higher
higher expenses because they were wrong with his handling of the to terms identical to the warrant Disclosure: Long FNM preferred air pressure in the chamber allows
team players and supported the Lehman situation and treated the deal received by the banks under and FRE preferred, No position in more oxygen to dissolve into the
Obama Administration’s economic bank shareholders on much more TARP. Similar to the preceding FNM or FRE common blood, which some athletes believe
helps them recover faster.

Horcoff No Fan of Heatley Trade Saga

By Susan Slusser (FanHouse)
Submitted at 8/26/2009 10:00:00 AM
by Susan Slusser
Filed under: Oilers, FanHouse
Exclusive
Edmonton was the one club that
tried hard to swing a deal to land
Ottawa's disgruntled Dany
Heatley. Heatley wouldn't waive
his no-trade clause to join the
Oilers, however.
As you might imagine, that
doesn't sit too well with Edmonton
players such as center Shawn
Horcoff, the Oilers' alternate
captain.
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World leaders pay tribute to Kennedy
(Financial Times - US
homepage)
Submitted at 8/26/2009 5:01:34 AM
Prominent Americans from both
sides of the political divide on
Wednesday joined leaders around
the world in paying tribute to
Edward Kennedy, who has died
following a long battle with
cancer.
Barack Obama, US president,
said he was heartbroken by the
death of Mr Kennedy, who on
Wednesday he called “one of the
most accomplished Americans
ever to serve our democracy”.
“For five decades, virtually every
major piece of legislation to
advance the civil rights, health and
economic well being of the
American people bore his name
and resulted from his efforts,” Mr
Obama said.
Mr Obama’s presidential
campaign received a strong boost
last year after Mr Kennedy’s
endorsement and the two
Democrats became close friends.
Harry Reid, the Democratic
majority leader in the Senate,
described working with Kennedy
as “the thrill of my lifetime”.
“The liberal lion’s mighty roar
may now fall silent, but his dream
shall never die,” he said.
On the other side of the political
spectrum, Arnold Schwarzenegger,
the Republican governor of
California and husband of
Thank the Management: Girardi's Subtle Changes Help Yankees Soar
By Ed Price (FanHouse)
Submitted at 8/25/2009 11:30:00 PM
by Ed Price
Filed under: Yankees, MLB
Inside Scoop NEW YORK -- Just
like last year, there is neither
candy nor ice cream available for
Kennedy’s niece Maria Shriver,
said: “Teddy inspired our country
through his dedication to
healthcare reform, his commitment
to social justice, and his devotion
to a life of public service.”
Orrin Hatch, Republican senator
for Utah, said: “Ted Kennedy was
an iconic, larger than life United
States senator whose influence
cannot be overstated.”
“Many have come before, and
many will come after, but Ted
Kennedy’s name will always be
remembered as someone who lived
and breathed the United States
Senate and the work completed
within its chamber.”
Kennedy had been a vocal
campaigner for healthcare reform,
which he called “the cause of my
life”.
Though critics have used
Kennedy’s illness to criticise
president Barack Obama’s
proposed healthcare reforms –
claiming that under the British
universal care system he would not
have received care for his brain
tumour – politicians said his death
would give the cause renewed
impetus.
“As we mourn his loss, we
rededicate ourselves to the causes
for which he so dutifully dedicated
his life,” said Mr Reid.
Around the world, leaders were
unanimous in their praise for
Kennedy and his legacy.
Gordon Brown, British prime
the Yankees in their clubhouse.
"I don't think anyone cares,"
Johnny Damon said Tuesday.
Manager Joe Girardi infamously
banned sweets last year, much to
the dismay of inveterate snacker
Mike Mussina(now retired to a life
of M&Ms and Mountain Dew).
minister, said Kennedy would be
remembered around the world for
his work on education and
healthcare.
”Senator Edward Kennedy will
be mourned not just in America
but in every continent. He is
admired around the world as the
senator of senators,” said Mr
Brown.
Kevin Rudd, Australian prime
minister, said Mr Kennedy had
made an extraordinary contribution
to American politics and the US’s
role in the world.
“Ted Kennedy will be sadly
missed in America, he will be
sadly missed around the world,
including in Australia,” said Mr
Rudd.
Brian Cowen, Irish prime
minister, praised Kennedy’s role in
Northern Ireland: “In good days
and bad, Ted Kennedy worked
valiantly for the cause of peace on
this island. He played a
particularly important role in the
formative days of the Northern
Ireland peace process in the early
to mid-1990s. He has also always
been a strong advocate of US
investment in Ireland. Today,
America has lost a great and
respected statesman and Ireland
has lost a long-standing and true
friend.”
Peter Weir, of the Democratic
Unionists, the main pro-British
party in the province, said Senator
Kennedy’s role in finding a
And while Girardi hasn't become
solution to the conflict had initially
been “far from positive” by siding
with the nationalists.
He said the Senator backed the
MacBride principles, which called
on investors to boycott US
companies that had operations in
the province because of the pro-
Protestant bias of Northern Ireland
employment laws. Mr Weir added:
“However, latterly he came to
recognise the validity of the
Unionist argument and the reality
of partition: he went as far as
snubbing Republican political
representatives over their failure to
come up to the democratic
standards set by the DUP and
accepted an honorary knighthood
from Her Majesty The Queen. In
his long political career he
travelled quite a distance.”
Benjamin Netanyahu called
Kennedy a “great friend of Israel”
while Raila Odinga, the Kenyan
prime minister, paid tribute to
Kennedy’s “significant role in
pushing for the opening up of the
political space in Kenya”.
In a statement, the Kennedy
family said: ”We’ve lost the
irreplaceable centre of our family
and joyous light in our lives, but
the inspiration of his faith,
optimism, and perseverance will
live on in our hearts forever.
“He loved this country and
devoted his life to serving it.”
the Candyman, he has changed in
his second year on New York's
perennially hottest seat. And the
Yankees say that's part of the
reason they are running away with
the AL East.
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Nancy Reagan on Death
of Ted Kennedy: 'My
Heart Goes out to Vicki
and the Entire Kennedy
Family'
(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 8/26/2009 2:51:00 AM
Former First Lady Nancy Reagan
spoke out on Tuesday night in
response to the news of Senator
Edward M. Kennedy's passing.
Mrs. Reagan offered her
condolences to the Kennedy
family and also revealed that her
and her late husband Ronald
Reagan were close friends with the
late Senator.
"I was terribly saddened to hear
of the death of Ted Kennedy
tonight," Mrs. Reagan said in a
statement. "Given our political
differences, people are sometimes
surprised by how close Ronnie and
I have been to the Kennedy family.
But Ronnie and Ted could always
find common ground, and they had
great respect for one another. In
recent years, Ted and I found our
common ground in stem cell
research, and I considered him an
ally and a dear friend. I will miss
him."
My heart goes out to Vicki and
the entire Kennedy family.
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Credit Card Act of 2009: Thanks for Nothing, Congress
(Financial Sector and Stocks
Analysis from Seeking Alpha)
Submitted at 8/26/2009 5:47:17 AM
Congress Takes Bow For Credit
Card Act of 2009
The Credit Card Act of 2009 was
intended to curb certain practices
of the credit card industry that
were deemed abusive to
consumers. With a great deal of
public fanfare, Congress passed
legislation that provided the
following benefits to credit card
holders:
• Credit card bills would be
mailed at least 21 days before the
payment due date
• Customers would be given a 45
day advance notice of contract
changes
• An increase of the interest rate
could be rejected by consumers
who would then be required to
cancel their card and pay off any
existing balance within 5 years,
possibly with a much higher
minimum monthly payment
• Payments would have to be
applied to that portion of debt with
the highest interest rate
• Interest rates could not be raised
on existing balances unless the
borrower was more than 60 days
delinquent
• Prohibited “universal default”
provisions and double cycle billing
• Better disclosure of fees, card
rules and interest costs
Senator Dodd of Connecticut,
Chairman of the Senate Banking
Committee, stated that “The new
rules of the road established by the
Credit Card Act will shield credit
cardholders from widespread
abusive practices”. Whether or not
the Senator (who faced an ethics
probe relating to the special low
rate mortgage he received from
Countrywide) actually succeeded
in providing any real benefits to
credit card holders remains
questionable.
Credit Card Industry Response
To Credit Card “Protection” Act
The credit card industry is not
based on philanthropy - they seek
profits and have been
exceptionally proficient in doing
so historically. Faced with huge
losses from defaulting customers
and the prospect of legislated
profit limitations, the credit card
industry reacted to these threats
with the following changes:
• Reduced or eliminated fixed
rate credit cards; when interest
rates increase, card rates will
increase commensurately
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Why The Credit Card
Companies Are The Biggest
Winners Under The Credit Card
Act Of 2009
What was supposed to be a
major consumer protection act has
turned into a future profit bonanza
for the credit card companies.
Many credit card customers may
go under financially but the credit
card companies will do just fine,
judging by the price performance
of their shares and their actions
taken cited above. The credit card
industry has adjusted their
business model to the new reality
and will prosper.
While the S&P 500 has
increased by 52% since March of
this year, the stocks of credit card
companies have performed
dramatically better. Since March
2009, the stocks of companies
such as American Express ( AXP)
and Capital One have tripled in
• Instituted annual fees, higher I have heard countless cases of value even as write-offs of credit
balance transfer fees, international people telling me that their card card debt hover in the 10% range
transaction fees, higher cash rates have been raised to 20% to and new restrictions on credit card
advance fees, reduced award 28% for purchases and cash companies become law.
programs, slashed credit limits, advances. Personally speaking, “I Am From The Government
canceled over $500 billion dollars virtually every credit card I have And I Am Here To Help”
in credit lines, summarily closed has had the interest rate increased After bailing out the banking
accounts deemed risky, raised substantially, with Capital One ( industry, our government (perhaps
monthly minimum payments and COF) taking first prize by going inadvertently) managed to provide
imposed strict standards for new from 8% to 17.9% on purchase even more help to the credit card
credit cards balances. industry. Thanks for trying to help,
• Increased interest rates by as Ironically, my General Motors Congress - I feel much better now
much as 10 percentage points or credit card has actually dropped that I am paying 18% instead of
more across the board, regardless the interest rate from 14.15% in 8%.
of credit or payment history. 2006 to a “low” 9.9% currently. I COF
Unable to adequately assess risk or assume that the low rate from Disclosures: None
price accordingly, every credit General Motors has something to
card holder was assumed to be a do with the fact that GM has an
potential default and charged unlimited credit line with the US
accordingly - See Capital One Treasury and does not have to
Can’t Identify Their Low Risk worry about silly things like
Customers making a profit.
Internet News Record Economy/ * 29

Toyota poised to slash global US durable goods orders

production surge in July
(Financial Times - US looking at cutting production in the has suffered most from the (Financial Times - US economists at RDQ Economics.
homepage) UK, where it makes the Auris, dramatic drop in demand for homepage) The US manufacturing sector has
Submitted at 8/26/2009 3:28:56 AM along with other lines in Japan. If vehicles. Sales in North America Submitted at 8/26/2009 6:19:37 AM been under severe pressure in the
this proves to be the case, Toyota fell 34 per cent to 945,000 in the last year, as companies have
Toyota is poised to slash will bring its total of production period from January to July this New orders for durable goods sought to clear stocks to cope with
production by as much as 580,000 cuts to almost 1m vehicles, or 10 year, the company said. The drop notched their biggest jump in two weak global demand and fears
vehicles – or almost 6 per cent of per cent of its global production was noticeably larger than the 23 years in July, as aircraft purchases about the economy. The July rise
global capacity – in an effort to capacity. per cent drop in Japan and the 27 soared and the US cash-for- in orders was the third in the past
stem losses amid the sharp It is the first time Toyota has per cent decline in Europe. clunkers programme fuelled a four months, but analysts warned
downturn in car sales. planned to cut production on such Akio Toyoda, the founding surge in demand for cars, the that a glut of overhang still
Japan’s largest carmaker, which a large scale and comes as the family scion who took over as commerce department said on loomed.
i s f o r e c a s t i n g i t s s e c o n d group’s global sales have been Toyota chief executive in June, is Wednesday. “It remains doubtful that
consecutive net loss this year, said battered by the recession. on a mission to cut costs and bring US durable goods orders rose by investment will grow meaningfully
it would shut a production line in The company is expected to the company back to profitability 4 . 9 p e r c e n t t o $ 1 6 8 . 4 b n , for some time, given the extent of
western Japan from next spring produce about 7.2m vehicles next fiscal year. e x c e e d i n g e c o n o m i s t s ’ spare capacity,” said Alan Ruskin,
through to the second half of 2011, globally this year, compared with Mr Nishimoto at CSM said expectations and signalling that a strategist at RBS Greenwich
reducing output by 220,000 9.7m in 2007, said Masatoshi Toyota would have to wait until government stimulus measures are Capital.
vehicles. Nishimoto, analyst at CSM 2011 to return to its post-crisis succeeding at spurring demand for From June to July, orders for non
Toyota is also looking to pull out Worldwide, the market research levels of production. long-lasting goods. Compared with -defence aircraft surged 107 per
of Nummi, its manufacturing joint group. He said it would be relatively a year ago, however, orders were cent after plunging by 30 per cent
venture with General Motors, in In its home market, Toyota is easy for Toyota to pull out of the off by 25.8 per cent. the prior month. Orders for metals,
California, the company said. expected to see production fall to Nummi facility, where it produced Excluding transportation orders, communications equipment and
“While nothing has been decided, 3.3m vehicles this year compared 359,000 vehicles last year, by which are considered to be motor vehicles all rose, while
we are in discussions [with GM’s with 4.9m in 2007, said Mr shifting production of the popular volatile, new orders made a more demand eased for machinery and
administrator] with a view to Nishimoto. Corolla model it makes there to modest rise of 0.8 per cent after computers.
pulling out of Nummi,” said However, it is in the US – where another plant in the US. climbing by a revised 2.5 per cent Companies continued to clear
Toyota. Toyota was forced by plunging in June. The 18.4 per cent rise in their stocks in July. Inventories
Japanese media have been sales to halt the building of a new overall transportation orders was s l i p p e d b y 0 . 8 p e r c e n t t o
reporting that the carmaker is also plant in Mississippi– that the group the sharpest increase since $ 3 1 4 . 1 b n , m a r k i n g s e v e n
September 2006. consecutive months of declines.
Where's the Truth in Erin Andrews Saga? “Capital goods orders and Wednesday’s results confirm a
shipments point to gains in report earlier this month from the
By David Whitley (FanHouse) justice. business equipment investment in Institute of Supply Management
Submitted at 8/25/2009 11:00:00 PM Since then there's barely been a the second half of 2009 and slower that the pace of decline in US
peep. inventory liquidation should add to manufacturing was at its slowest in
by David Whitley Where's the Truth in Erin third-quarter growth,” noted John almost a year in July, with new
Filed under: ESPN, Sports Andrews Saga? originally Ryding and Conrad DeQuadros, orders and production growing.
Media, Current Events I don't appeared on Fanhouse Backporch
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30 Social Net/ * Internet News Record
SENATOR
continued from page 19
leading liberal, he made practical eclipsed by the Clintons and The announcement in May that
friendships and relationships Bushes in the past 20 years, but the the senator was suffering from a
across the aisle – with Senator power of the name lingered on. malignant brain tumour elicited the
John McCain of Arizona on And when Ted Kennedy kind of national response more
immigration reform and with the endorsed Mr Obama, not Hillary associated with an actual demise.
staunchly conservative Senator Clinton, for the Democratic Robert Byrd of West Virginia, the
Orrin Hatch of Utah on judicial presidential nomination in the only senator to have served longer
matters. early spring of 2008, there was than Mr Kennedy, wept on the
He even helped steer President
Bush’s “no child left behind”
clearly the sense of the passing of
the liberal torch. The mood, at
chamber’s floor. From all political
quarters the sympathy appeared
Twitter Security
education act through the Senate,
though he subsequently became
American University in the
nation’s capital, was nothing short
genuine and heartfelt.
It was as if the man who might
Exploit Still Starting Five:
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in his view, under-funding. That senator there, roaring out his king was being treated like royalty
By Stan Schroeder
apart, he had little truck with the
administration’s overall policies,
endorsement as in days of yore,
but so was Caroline Kennedy,
at the end of his life. But, then, the
closest 20th century America had (Mashable!) Off Ledge Again
voting against authorising the war JFK’s daughter. The fact that a come to royalty was the Kennedy Submitted at 8/26/2009 5:18:34 AM By Ed Price (FanHouse)
in Iraq and frequently eviscerating week later Mrs Clinton beat Mr family, in all its glory, tragedy and Submitted at 8/26/2009 6:00:00 AM
everything the justice department Obama in the Massachusetts strife. Remember that nasty Twitter
did, especially when Alberto primary on Kennedy turf took a Ted Kennedy proved himself a security bug we wrote about
by Ed Price
Gonzales was attorney general. little gloss off the moment, but worthy heir to the name he bore. yesterday? Twitter reported they
Filed under: Dodgers, Marlins,
It may be that the Kennedys, as a could not detract from the Phillies, Red Sox, Rockies,
dynastic political family, had been symbolism of the act. Royals, White Sox, NL West,
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We are huge fans of Animoto, the technology to analyze video clips pretty nifty prizes. impossible without an effective
very straightforward mash-up tool and weave them together with You can even control the sound. Animoto videos have always closer. And Lidge, perfect last year
that lets you take images, put them images you upload to create You can choose either to keep the spoken for themselves, and the in converting save opportunities, is
to music, and turn them into Animoto videos that are eye- music playing and mute the audio video clip feature always seemed a mess.
incredible video slideshows that popping while synced to musical (default) or to activate the clip’s like a natural evolution for the Asked to hold a one-run lead last
simply draw the eye. clips that have been central to the audio and take the music volume platform. That doesn’t take away night against the Pirates, Lidge
Now the image remixing Animoto experience. down by half. from the coolness factor, though. gave up a single, a wild pitch, a
platform is opening its doors to a It works like this: you can upload There’s always been a lot of And to demonstrate that, we’ve single and Andrew McCutchen's
new kind of media that takes videos, up to 200 MB in size, from appeal to Animoto videos, and included a bonus section that walkoff homer. More Coverage:
Animoto videos to the next level: your computer, Flip, iPhone 3G S, they just became a lot more displays the possibilities of Scoreboard| Standings| Statistics
video clips. and other media. You can then versatile and useful. Animoto’s Animoto’s video clip feature: Starting Five: Phillies' Lidge
That’s right: your Animoto pick out short clips from these even partnered with iStockphoto to BONUS: More Example Videos Falls Off Ledge Again originally
videos can now include short video videos – up 5 seconds for standard, provide about 200 stock videos for 1. Office puppies: appeared on Fanhouse MLB Blog
clips that expand the Animoto 10 seconds for premium videos – users to use in their animations. 2. Avery discovers the slide: on Wed, 26 Aug 2009 06:00:00
experience in a completely new a n d p l a c e t h e m i n t o y o u r Finally, to promote this new 3. Tom Iceland: EST . Please see our terms for use
direction. The result is something animation, just like before. Once feature, Animoto’s launched video 4. Pool party: of feeds.
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continued from page 30
promptly fixed it, and we believed
them…for a second.
According to David Naylor, who
found the exploit, the security
issue still hasn’t been fixed,
meaning that it still presents a
danger to all Twitter users. Today,
David has provided more technical
info about the exploit:
“With a few minutes work,
someone with a bit of technical
expertise could make a Twitter
‘application’ and start sending
tweets with it. Using the simple
instructions below, it can be
arranged so that if another Twitter
user so much as sees one of these
tweets – and they are logged in to
Twitter – their account could be
taken over.”
He also goes on to explain how
poorly Twitter has attempted to fix
the issue:
Teens Don’t Tweet, Or Do They?
“I say Twitter have missed the
point because they apparently
“fixed” the problem last night.
Their idea of fixing it is to stop
you putting spaces in the address
box. Spaces. Other than that,
everything else is fair game.”
If David is right, this is (still) a
huge security issue. He gives some
advice on what you can do to
protect yourself until the issue is
properly addressed:
* If you’re not logged in to
Twitter, there’s no opportunity to
steal your details or impersonate
you, however malicious code
could still send you to other
websites or otherwise annoy you,
so it doesn’t completely fix the
problem.
* Unfollow anyone you don’t
know or don’t trust that could be
exploiting this. Who’s to say
they’re not already stealing your
details? If you don’t see their
tweets they can’t harm you.
* If you use something other than
the Twitter website to view your
tweets, perhaps one of the
applications mentioned below, you
should be fairly safe, though
without looking at each one
individually it’s hard to be sure.
Still, you’re likely to be pretty safe
this way.
So, in short: unfollow people
you don’t trust, or use a 3rd party
application, such as TweetDeck,
for your Twitter needs, at least for
now. Reviews: TweetDeck,
Twitter
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Microsoft Apologizes
for Photoshop
Trainwreck
By Stan Schroeder
(Mashable!)
Submitted at 8/26/2009 12:28:35 AM
Earlier today, two screenshots of
an ad from one of Microsoft’s sites
began circling internet forums and
blogs: one depicted a conference
table with a couple of happy
employees: an Asian man, a black
man, and a white woman. The
other image was from the Polish
version of the same site, and it’s After Monday's
Heartbreaker, Giants Get
MICROSOFT page 32 Back in Win Column
By Jeff Fletcher (FanHouse)
Submitted at 8/26/2009 1:46:00 AM

by Jeff Fletcher
By Stan Schroeder this percentage does sound a bit doesn’t exist: teens do tweet. Are
(Mashable!) low. However, the article states they more crazy about it than other Filed under: Giants SAN
Submitted at 8/26/2009 7:17:32 AM that at MySpace, teenagers account age groups? No. But why should FRANCISCO -- The Giants said
for 14 percent of users. On that surprise us? all the right things about how they
The New York Times has a Facebook, this number is 9 At one point, the article states: planned to put Monday's gut-
lengthy piece about Twitter and percent. “As the Web grows up, so do its wrenching loss behind them.
the teenage population, which So, while teenagers aren’t users, and for many analysts, And then they went out and did
seems to be reluctant to embark exactly all over Twitter, one can Twitter’s success represents a new just what they needed. They won,
into the wonderful world of 140- argue that they use it just as much model for Internet success. The beating the Diamondbacks' 5-4 on
character messages, hashtags and as other social networks. We wrote notion that children are essential to Tuesday night at AT&T Park.
retweets. However, looking at the about this phenomenon recently: if The word of choice in the
it’s too “adult”; it doesn’t allow a new technology’s success has clubhouse afterward was "huge."
numbers which are the basis for you expect teens to be a majority them to express their identity as proved to be largely a myth.”
the article, it seems like a wider on Twitter, you’ll be surprised: "That tells you about the heart of
much as other social networks; Exactly: it’s not so much about the team, what the guys are about,"
issue, which isn’t necessarily only they aren’t. But if you change your they prefer to communicate with Twitter; it just may be that the
related to Twitter. perspective about the internet in Giants starter Matt Cain said.
their friends instead of a larger internet is growing up. After Monday's Heartbreaker,
According to comScore, only 11 general, perhaps it’s not such a big group of individuals. All of these Tags: facebook, myspace, social
percent of Twitter users are aged surprise after all. Giants Get Back in Win Column
sound feasible, but they are media, social networking, teens, originally appeared on Fanhouse
12 to 17. Although ages 13 to 19 The NYT article presents several solving a problem that, perhaps, twitter
actually fit the “teen” definition, theories on why teens don’t tweet: MLB Blog on Wed, 26 Aug 2009
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identical to the first one, except the
head of the black man was
replaced with a head of a white
man.
Initially I thought it was just
someone having some fun in
Photoshop trying to take a stab at
Microsoft, but it’s real, and
Microsoft has issued an apology.
“We are looking into the details of
this situation. We apologize and
are in the process of pulling down
the image,” Microsoft
spokesperson Lou Gellos said. See
the comparison after the break.
Is it racist? It’s definitely very
clumsy. Perhaps one could dismiss
it as an attempt at localization;
there aren’t as many black people
in Poland as there are in some
other countries where Microsoft
operates. However, several details
that are at the very least odd have
turned this into a PR mini-disaster
for Microsoft.
First of all, the hand of the black
man was not replaced in the
altered photo; yes, it’s hard to
notice if you don’t see the original,
but now it adds a layer of
creepiness over the image.
Secondly, the Asian man was not
replaced; is this because there’s a
significant number of Asians, but
not blacks, in Poland? I doubt it.
Props to Microsoft for quickly
issuing an apology, but now that
the word is out, I bet we’ll see this
image a lot more in funny
Photoshop threads in the days to
come.
Tags: microsoft, Photoshop
Animoto's slideshow tool gets video
support
By Josh Lowensohn would let users control specific
(Webware.com) times on how long certain pictures
Submitted at 8/25/2009 8:00:00 PM were presented, or tweak things
like total clip length--two things
Music video slideshow tool getting muddled down in long that are determined by how many
Animoto is venturing into new clips, while keeping rendering photos (and now videos) users
territory Tuesday night with an times down on Animoto's side. It decide to use. "I don't like the idea
upgraded tool that supports video also acts as an incentive to upgrade of moving back to the timeline,"
clips. Alongside photos, users can to Animoto's paid service, which Jefferson said. "The music is
now upload videos up to 200MB bumps the possible clip size from always going to determine how
in size, including segments that are 5 to 10 seconds. long (the video) is. We've always
in high definition. These exist To help make the time been about a really simple
seamlessly beside the photo limitations a little more feasible, paradigm that doesn't get people
content, and get the same Animoto Animoto has a built-in clip editor thinking from a tool level."
treatment with transparency that lets users choose the 1 to 10 That's not to say Jefferson isn't
effects, reflections, and other eye seconds they want to use from an smitten with simpler ways for
candy. uploaded video. Users just pick the people to edit their videos before
Unlike the way Animoto handles start point, and how long they want they're uploaded. Especially on the
importing photos from third party it to run, and Animoto's servers do new iPhone, which lets users shoot
sites like Flickr, Facebook, and the rest. You can also choose to a video, trim it, then send it in an e
SmugMug, the same cannot be cut out the sound, as well as -mail, or places like YouTube. For
said for videos. If you want it to duplicate any clip. Doing this now there isn't a way for users to
grab a video you've already several times over lets users string send those clips to Animoto
uploaded somewhere else you together a series of segments from without first heading to their
need to track down the source file a larger clip to go beyond the time computers to download the file off
and re-upload it. limitations. the phone, but Jefferson envisions
Another caveat--and it's a big Venturing into the realm of a future update that will take the
one, is that you can only use 5 or video editing is definitely an computer out of the equation
10 seconds of a video at a time, in interesting move by Animoto. In a entirely.
clip form. This limitation is by chat with me last week, CEO Brad Originally posted at Web
design, and serves a few purposes. Jefferson insisted that the tool was Crawler
One is to keep a slideshow from not headed in a direction that

E-mail Service Guide breaks down e-mail plans

By Josh Lowensohn you comparison shop by feature. use it. This includes things from Live Hotmail, and Yahoo Mail.
(Webware.com) This is handled gracefully with a the fine print like sign-up fees or Instead you have providers like
Submitted at 8/25/2009 3:57:00 PM search tool that lets you plug in required contracts, all of which can Zimbra, GoDaddy, and Rackspace-
which options you want, like be simply sorted by column. -many of which have service
If you're contemplating switching whether the service has POP3 and Looking for the e-mail provider license agreements, multi-user
to another e-mail provider, but IMAP (Internet Mail Access with the biggest attachment size? seating, and more generous
have been too lazy to do a feature Protocol) support, or customer This tool lets you sort to see which attachment size limits.
comparison of the competition, service by phone or e-mail so you one is the tops.(Credit: CNET) See also: Wikipedia's chart of
there's a new tool that might be of can talk to an actual human if Since the tool is focused on Web mail providers
assistance. Aptly named E-mail something goes wrong. premium services, missing are Originally posted at Web
Service Guide takes more than 100 It can also tell you how much down its price according to how consumer-grade options like the Crawler
hosted e-mail providers, and lets each service will cost, by breaking many months you're planning to vanilla version of Gmail, Windows
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There goes the neighborhood? Ashton Kutcher's
on Foursquare
By Caroline McCarthy
(Webware.com)
Submitted at 8/25/2009 12:06:00 PM
Ashton Kutcher at the Brainstorm
conference earlier this year(Credit:
Ina Fried/CNET News)
Everybody panic!
Seemingly unable to let any hot
social media start-up escape his
hunky clutches, it appears that
actor and prolific Twitter
oversharer Ashton Kutcher is now
using where-you-at, ping-your-
friends city guide app Foursquare.
A tipster pointed me to a
Foursquare account for user "
aplusk," the same handle that
Kutcher uses on Twitter for his 3
million-plus followers.
Is it real? Well, his friends
include Digg founder (and
occasional bromancer) Kevin
Rose, videoblogging personality
Justine Ezarik, and "mrskutcher,"
which is the Twitter username for
his wife, actress Demi Moore.
Since Foursquare requires mutual
approval of friend connections,
this would indicate that the likes of
Rose and Moore believe the
account to be legit. And since
Kutcher's Twitter account is linked
to the Foursquare profile, which
requires using the Twitter log-in
credentials, it's either legit or
Kutcher's Twitter account has been
What is an asshole?
(Scripting News)
Submitted at 8/25/2009 7:17:14 PM
An asshole is someone who says
Obama is like Hitler because he
wants everyone in the US to have
health insurance.
These people are so stupid they
hacked. (And there have been no
indications as to the latter.)
So why is this important? Well,
it could be pretty momentous for
Foursquare if Ashton Kutcher
sticks around.
All joking aside, the 31-year-old
Kutcher has been a prominent, and
admittedly important figure when
it comes to bringing social-media
tools into the mainstream. His race
to beat CNN to 1 million Twitter
need to be slapped in the face to
wake them up. They need to have
their mouths washed out with soap
and be sent to bed without dinner.
They need to be sent into hard
labor and allowed to die of
starvation. incinerated them in ovens. Hitler
Hitler gassed my people and
followers(he won) was one of the
publicity blitzes that put the name
of the microblogging service on
the pop-culture map. Foursquare, a
tiny New York-based start-up that
launched only six months ago out
of the ashes of the ill-fated
Dodgeball and still hasn't wrapped
up a round of venture funding
(though I hear they're working on
it) could really get a boost from
this--assuming their servers are
* Tech Musings/ Entertainment/
ready for it.
But it also raises an important
security question. Unless they're
using Foursquare to broadcast their
locations for promotional purposes
(as some party photographers and
DJs in NYC are already doing, and
it'd be certainly interesting if
Kutcher did something like this),
celebrities using any kind of GPS-
based or geolocation app could be
making themselves vulnerable to
varying degrees of annoyance
ranging from pesky fans with
cameras to full-on stalking. It
could also make Foursquare an
appealing target for hackers.
But I assume Kutcher, who
seems like a pretty smart guy, will
be careful with who he lets onto
his friends list. Now for the real
question: how long before he
unlocks a "Crunked" badge?
UPDATE(1:06 p.m. PT): Just to
clarify, a few people were under
the impression Kutcher had
already deleted his Foursquare
account. That was actually due to a
broken link in this blog post;
Kutcher is, for the time being, still
on Foursquare. (My bad.)
On a completely different note, I
recommend reading this follow-up
post on branding consultant Matt
Spangler's blog about what Ashton
Kutcher means for Foursquare.
Originally posted at The Social
came very close to wiping us out.
Hitler was a monster. Hitler was
the human race going insane on a
mass level.
If you think Obama is Hitler you
deserve to meet with others who
agree with you, starving and
freezing and dying in a cattle car,
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Guiding Light's Olivia
and Natalia will live on
in new web series (kind
of)
By Bob Sassone (TV Squad)
Submitted at 8/26/2009 8:01:00 AM
A lot of Guiding Light fans are
entranced by Otalia. That's not a
butter substitute, it's the
"Brangelina-ish" name that fans
have given to Olivia and Natalia,
the lesbian couple played by
Crystal Chappell and Jessica
Leccia. Fans won't be able to see
that couple anymore, since
Guiding Light will air its last
episode ever on September 18. But
the actresses have decided to keep
the storyline alive on the web.
Though as I said above, kind of.
Continue reading Guiding
Light's Olivia and Natalia will live
on in new web series (kind of)
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sitting in each others' excrement,
on your way to a concentration
camp and its ovens and gas
chambers, along with your
children.
You will not be allowed to bring
your assault rifle.
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What's Inside a Slim Jim? America's Got Talent: Performance

By Patrick di Justo (Wired Top extrudes the meat as a bright pink thereby preventing spoilage. One show four
Stories) paste and leaves the bones behind Slim Jim gives you more than one- By Isabelle Carreau (TV
Submitted at 8/25/2009 9:00:00 PM (most of the time). sixth of the sodium your body Squad)
Corn and wheat proteins needs in a day. Submitted at 8/26/2009 1:30:00 AM
Beef Slim Jim is made by ConAgra, Sodium nitrite
It's real meat, all right. But it and if there are two things Cosmetically, this is added to (S04E19) A few of you told me
ain't Kobe. The US Department of ConAgra has a lot of, it's corn and sausage because it combines with that I was wrong by claiming that
Agriculture categorizes beef into wheat. myoglobin in animal muscle to last week's performance show was
eight grades of quality. The bottom Lactic acid starter culture keep it from turning gray. electrifying. I agree with you that
three—utility, cutter, and Although ConAgra refers to Slim Antibiotically, it inhibits botulism. we have seen much better
canner—are typically used in Jim as a meat stick (yum), it has a Toxicologically, 6 grams of the performance shows in the past.
processed foods and come from lot in common with old-fashioned stuff—roughly the equivalent of However, when you compare the
older steers with partially ossified fermented sausages like salami and 1,400 Slim Jims—can kill you. So third performance show of the
vertebrae, tougher tissue, and pepperoni. They all use bacteria go easy there, champ. season with the two previous, you
generally less reason to live. and sugar to produce lactic acid, Hydrolyzed soy have to admit that it was the most
C o n A g r a w a s n ' t e x a c t l y which lowers the pH of the predictions coming up!
Hydrolysis, in this instance, electrifying. Continue reading America's Got
forthcoming on what's inside Slim sausage to around 5.0, firming up breaks larger soy protein Save for a few of tonight's acts,
Jim. Talent: Performance show four
the meat and hopefully killing all molecules into their constituent such as Ishaara and Barbara, the Filed under: OpEd, Episode
Mechanically separated chicken harmful bacteria. amino acids, such as glutamic acid. third performance show is still the
Did you imagine a conveyor belt Reviews, America's Got Talent
Dextrose Typically, the process also results best performance show we've had Permalink| Email this| |
carrying live chickens into a giant Serves as food for the lactic acid in glutamic acid salt—also known so far this season.
machine, set to the classic cartoon starter culture. Slim Jim: It's alive! Comments
as monosodium glutamate, a My comments on the fourth
theme "Powerhouse"? You're Salt familiar flavor enhancer. performance show and my
right! Well, maybe not about the Salt binds the water molecules in
music. Poultry scraps are pressed meat, leaving little H2O available
mechanically through a sieve that f o r m i c r o b i a l a c t i v i t y — a n d

Facebook hires an open-source dude

By Caroline McCarthy been impressed by their products, DiBona.
(Webware.com) smart people, and innovation," he Facebook, which plans to raise
Submitted at 8/25/2009 1:59:00 PM wrote in the post. its employee head count by 50
It wasn't so long ago that
The news started to emerge in Facebook was seen as the ultimate
various Twitter feeds and personal in closed-off technology, with
percent this year, made several
very prominent hires earlier this Bitly partners
earned both developer and mass- month when it acquired start-up
b l o g p o s t s M o n d a y : D a v i d profiles hidden behind a log-in
Recordon, a Six Apart developer wall and features built with in-
market approval. FriendFeed in a deal that seems to
Recordon told me he doesn't have been aimed largely at getting
with yfrog for
and prominent open-standards house technologies rather than
a d v o c a t e , h a s l e f t t h e b l o g open standards. At that time, a hire
want to say too much until after its ex-Googler founders on board
he's actually started at Facebook, at Facebook.
picture sharing
software company to take a job at like Recordon would've seemed to which will be on Monday. But I Correction 2:25 p.m. PDT: This By Rafe Needleman
Facebook. many a ludicrous match. But spoke to a few of his soon-to-be story initially misstated David (Webware.com)
Recordon, who formally Facebook's changing: it joined the Facebook colleagues, and they Recordon's new title at Facebook. Submitted at 8/25/2009 5:27:00 PM
announced the job change on his OpenID Foundation earlier this sound excited: the 5-year-old I t i s s e n i o r o p e n p r o g r a m s
LiveJournal, will take on the title year, made a big chunk of its company has never had an already- m a n a g e r . Short URL powerhouse Bitly is
of senior open programs manager. developer platform open-source, prominent open-source advocate Originally posted at The Social baking into its Web service the
"This past year as I've worked a n d i t s F a c e b o o k C o n n e c t on staff, like Google's Chris yfrog picture-sharing service made
closer with teams at Facebook, I've universal-log-in product has by Imageshack. yfrog competes
with other Twitter-friendly image-

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sharing services such as Twitpic.
For users who want to create
easy short links to images they
upload from their computers, this
will be a bit of a time-saver. Also,
users will get the real-time click
through data from their images on
the Bitly site.
Imageshack CEO Jack Levin
says that his 11-person company
services 3 billion images a day.
That's the highest hit-per-
employee ratio in Silicon Valley,
he boasts. He also says that
Imageshack has, due to its tenure,
a larger and more stable
infrastructure than competitors.
I find it interesting that a service
that I thought treated all sites
equally--I'm talking about Bitly
here--would make a deal clearly
favoring a particular source. Of
course, Twitter itself gave Bitly its
big break when it baked the URL
shortener into Twitter itself,
How Fast is Your Internet Connection? [Reader Poll]
By Azadeh Ensha (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 8/25/2009 5:00:00 PM
DSL and other high-speed
internet services feel like dial-up
more often than they should.
According to a new study, the U.S.
ranks 28th in terms of fastest
broadband speeds behind Japan,
Sweden, Holland, and other
industrialized nations. Where do
you rank?
The admittedly partisan labor
union group Communications
Workers of America compiled a
list of broadband speeds for U.S.
states (and its territories). Based on
the data, America's average
replacing TinyURL. Benevolence,
or favoritism, depending on how
you look at it, flows downhill.
Levin agrees that deals like this
are "Web politics" but is happy to
have what is for now at least and
exclusive placement on the Bitly
service.
The image-upload feature should
go live on the Bitly page at the end
of the month.
Bitly also announced on its blog
that Google Reader and Typepad
now generate Bitly links natively.
Previously: As the URL burns:
The short-link soap opera.
Disclosure: Bitly and CBS,
CNET's parent company, have
partnered to create branded short
links for CBS News. CNET itself
has no partnership with Bitly.
Originally posted at Rafe's Radar
broadband speeds clock in at about
5 megabits per second, with
Delaware registering the fastest
stateside speeds, averaging 9.91
mbps. For its part, Puerto Rico had
the slowest rates at 1.04 mbps.
Though the study should be
taken with a grain of salt since not
all territories were included,
among other variables (the article
itself notes that the study is not
entirely scientific), it does
highlight the wide disparity in
broadband speeds, both within the
U.S. and abroad. South Korea,
Japan, Sweden, and Holland, for
example, all fared better than
America.
How Can the Big Ten Get Its
Mojo Back? Ask a Doctor
By Mark Hasty (FanHouse)
Submitted at 8/26/2009 9:00:00 AM
by Mark Hasty
Filed under: Michigan,
Nebraska, Ohio State, Big 10 The
other day a commenter asked me
what I thought the Big Ten needed
to do to get back on track. Well,
I've only thought about that
question every day since the end of
last season, so as you might
suspect, I have a few ideas.
First off, let's put all the cards on
the table. What is "broken" in the
Big Ten? The league suffers under
the perception/reality that, while
its teams look very good against
each other, they fold up in
competition with teams from other
conferences, specifically the Big
12, SEC and Pac 10.
Why? Because the Big Ten has
become synonymous with a slow,
plodding, and most of all boring
style of football. Does this sound
This report got us wondering
what kind of speeds our readers
are used to enjoying (or pulling
their hair out over), so head over to
one of the previously mentioned
familiar to some of you? It should.
How Can the Big Ten Get Its
Mojo Back? Ask a Doctor
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bandwidth speed tests(we're quite
partial to the classic Speakeasy
speed test), give your connection a
workout, then let us know how
spry your downloads are:
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Remains of the Day:
Jessica Biel's Not That
Dangerous Edition [For
What It's Worth]
By Adam Pash (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 8/25/2009 4:00:00 PM
The Pirate Bay sails the Jolly
Roger a touch longer, YouTube is
offering cash for your 15 minutes
of fame, Google Chrome's stable
channel gets an important security
update, and Jessica Biel is
currently the web's most dangerous
How Fast Is Your Internet
Connection?( online surveys)
Update: We accidentally
dropped a zero on our initial poll;
this new poll should be a touch
more useful for measuring it out.
Browse the full link to see how
your state ranks, then tell us if
these findings match up with your
own observations. How does
broadband stack up where you
live? Let us know in the
comments. 15 U.S. States with the
Fastest Broadband Internet
Speeds[Los Angeles Times]
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continued from page 35
celeb search.
Photo by Maggiejumps.
• The Pirate Bay Returns With
Guns Blazing Looks like despite
what we heard yesterday, The
Pirate Bay's ship isn't sinking just
yet—until later this week, when
the site's sale is final.
[TorrentFreak]
• In the future, everyone will
monetize their 15 minutes
YouTube is launching revenue
sharing for popular viral video so
hopefully you can make some cash
for your 15 minutes. [YouTube
Biz Blog]
• Stable Update: Security fixes
Google Chrome issues a few major
security fixes for the stable
Check If Your Must-Have
Applications Are Snow Leopard-
Compatible [Mac OS X]
By Gina Trapani (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 8/25/2009 3:00:00 PM
Apple's latest $29 update to OS X
Snow Leopard ships this
Friday—but will all of your
essential applications run when
you install it? This application
compatibility list is a good place to
find out.
I've been running various builds
of the Snow Leopard preview for
months now, and every single one
of my most important applications
(with the exception of one*) is
working just fine.
* I happen to use an abandoned
beta of Synergy KM to share my
mouse and keyboard between my
PC and Mac, and its System
Preferences pane requires a restart
every once in awhile to get it to
connect. Overall, a minor
channel of Chrome. [Google
Chrome Releases Blog]
• Greasemonkey Converter This
new batch script aims to convert
your run-of-the-mill
Greasemonkey scripts to full-on
G o o g l e C h r o m e
extensions—provided they don't
use any of Greasemonkey's more
custom functions.
• Google Sitelinks for Wikipedia
Google adds links to sections of
some Wikipedia articles in the
Google results. [Google Operating
System]
• Wikipedia to Limit Changes to
Articles on People The Wikimedia
foundation (the folks who run
Wikipedia) has decided that
annoyance for other worthy away from 'hacker. To get all of
updates.
Notable non-compatible apps to s u r e t o s u b s c r i b e t o t h e
look out for from the list: Adobe Smarterware RSS feed. For more,
CS2 Suite, Adobe Photoshop c h e c k o u t G i n a ' s w e e k l y
Elements, CoverSutra, Cyberduck, Smarterware feature here on
(maybe) Disk Inventory X, Disk Lifehacker.
Warrior, and (maybe) Google
Gears. (Google Gears occasionally
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"experienced volunteer editor[s]"
will have to approve changes to
entries on living people. [NYT]
• Camtasia for Mac We're big
fans of Camtasia for Windows,
and now the commercial
screencasting app has found its
way to OS X. [Techsmith]
• Jessica Biel Tops Brad Pitt as
Internet's Most Dangerous Search
(Updated) According to McAfee,
Jessica Biel is dangerous. That's
Google Power Readers
assuming you're also relatively bad
at using the internet, of course, so Suggest a Few Great Reading
you can probably feel comfortably
searching your heart out about
Miss Biel without too many
Lists [Google Reader]
concerns. [Wired] By Adam Pash (Lifehacker) small reading list for the Power
Submitted at 8/25/2009 4:30:00 PM Readers' tech and web section; I'd
recommend browsing some of the
Google Reader has re-launched reading lists from other folks there
their Power Readers section, for a look at some really good tech
complete with suggested reading reading, including lists from folks
l i s t s f r o m j o u r n a l i s t s , t e c h like Chris Anderson from Wired,
b l o g g e r s , f o o d i e s , a n d Mark Frauenfelder from Boing
more—including some suggestions B o i n g , J a s o n K o t t k e f r o m
from your friendly neighborhood Kottke.org, and Annalee Newitz
Lifehacker editor. from our sibling blog, io9. If you
The Google Power Readers page w a n t t o g o s t r a i g h t t o t h e
rounds up suggested reading lists Lifehacker bundle, you can do that
does this weird thing where it
from all sorts of writers and active here.
launches a virtual disk and then
closes it again; otherwise it has web folks. The aim is to showcase Find one you particularly like?
worked for me. Disk Inventory X Google Reader's new bundles Want to create and share your own
also works for me, albeit slowly, in feature for sharing a handful of bundle? Give us your links in the
build 10A421a of Snow Leopard.) feeds in one fell swoop. comments. Google Power
Got a must-have application of In the interest of full disclosure, R e a d e r s [ G o o g l e R e a d e r v i a
your own that's not yet working the folks at Google were nice G o o g l e R e a d e r B l o g ]
with Snow Leopard? Let's hear it enough to ask me to provide a
in the comments. Mac OS X 10.6
Snow Leopard Compatibility
List[Wikidot via Smarterware]
Smarterware is Lifehacker editor
emeritus Gina Trapani's new home
the latest from Smarterware, be
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Maintain a Good Credit Score
with the 20-Percent Rule
[Money]
By Azadeh Ensha (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 8/25/2009 3:30:00 PM
Getting and keeping a good credit
score is important in renting an
apartment, buying a home, and
most other finance-based ventures.
CNN Money offers their best tips
on how to maintain a FICO score,
including the 20-percent rule.
Photo by Andres Rueda.
The article explains that how
much you owe versus how much
credit has been extended to you is
the second most important factor
in determining your score. By way
of example, the author writes that
if you've charged $5,000 on credit
cards and have $50,000 in credit,
your rate is 10 percent, which they
say is "ideal"—though you can go
up as far as 20 percent and still
keep a good score. Once you
consistently go over 20 percent,
you begin to ding your credit
Gannett And AP Tell SEC They
Won't Sign Up For Restricted
Reporting
By Michael Masnick (Techdirt)
Submitted at 8/25/2009 5:40:00 PM
Well, we've already joked about
how the Associated Press seems to
have a bit of a double standard in
complaining about the
Southeastern Conference's (SEC)
restrictions on journalistic activity
during SEC sporting events, but
it's nice to see the Associated Press
and the Gannett chain of
newspapers both take a stand and
tell the SEC that it simply won't
Demand Media Is a Page View
Generating Machine - And it's
Working
By Richard MacManus
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 8/25/2009 4:34:30 PM
In our recent post about the top
50 web properties in the U.S.
according to comScore, we noted
that Demand Media is on the rise -
moving from #36 to #24 in the past
12 months. Demand Media owns a
score. number of successful sites,
If you're lucky, you hardly ever including ehow.com, Pluck and
carry over a balance on your credit eNom (the second or third-largest
card to begin with, but in case domain registrar in the world). The
you've accrued a bit of debt, this is company also proclaims itself to
information worth knowing. Check be "the leader in social media
out the link for the other credit s o l u t i o n s . " D e m a n d M e d i a
tips, then watch our video covering provides social media platforms to
ten credit score myths dispelled. corporations and has a strong SEO
W i n a t t h e C r e d i t S c o r i n g business, creating niche website
Game[CNN Money] content tailored to search engines.
In short, Demand Media knows
how to get page views.
Sponsor
Demand Media's original plan in
2006 was to buy up millions of
domain names and stick content on
them in order to monetize. Further
into 2006 it added social media to
the mix and since then the
sign the agreement. It's not entirely company has grown from strength
clear what happens next. The SEC to strength.
is likely to change the policies and Demand Media operates based
try to come to some sort of on a simple formula for success on
compromise, but I'd love to see the Web: create a ton of niche,
news organizations get a backbone mostly uninspired content targeted
and tell such sports leagues that to search engines, then make it
there's no compromise and no deal viral through social software.
to be had. They're reporters and Demand Media has been heavily
they'll report as they see fit. funded to carry out that mission, to
Permalink| Comments| Email the tune of $355 million. So yes,
This Story brute force - quantity of content +
money/power - works more often
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than we'd like to think on the Web.
Demand Media was founded in
2006 by Shawn Colo and the
former chairman of MySpace.com,
Richard Rosenblatt.
ReadWriteWeb first profiled
Demand Media in November
2006, at which point we somewhat
cynically concluded: "[the] next
generation of new media it may be,
but it all comes down to quantity
in the end." Which is pretty much
how it's panned out.
As of November 2008, Demand
Media claimed to power 3 billion
monthly social media interactions
and was the #1 YouTube
contributor. According to
comScore, in July 2009 Demand
Media had 31 million unique
visitors. Where Does the Content
Come From?
Demand Media sources a lot of
its content through freelancers, via
its Demand Studios. The company
has gotten content from over
10,000 people and uses a
proprietary editorial system
(apparently including "predictive
algorithms") to publish it. As of
May 2009, Demand Media
claimed to have created more than
500,000 unique pieces of content -
at a staggering rate of about 2,000
pieces of content per day![ Update:
Demand Media contacted us to say
that the total figure is now "nearly
1M pieces of content."] From
YouTube alone, Demand Media
garners 2 million impressions per
37
day.
BusinessWeek explains the
economics for contributors, but
basically there is a set fee and
percentage of ad revenues.
Conclusion: Demand Media Will
Continue to Move up comScore's
Charts
It's easy to be cynical about
Demand Media - it creates
truckloads of content very cheaply,
uses social websites like YouTube
to make it viral, and gets tons of
page views as a result. But... it
works. Demand Media earns more
than $200 million in annual
revenues, according to
BusinessWeek.
Whether we like it or not,
success on the Web mostly comes
from quantity and not quality.
One does have to admire the
system that Demand Media has
built up to create content at little
expense, make it viral and
monetize it. The company's rise up
the comScore Top 50 shows that
this strategy is paying off big time.
We wouldn't be surprised to see
Demand Media near the top 10 in
comScore within a couple of years.
As long as search engines like
Google continue to rank niche,
topical content highly - and we see
absolutely no reason why they
wouldn't - then Demand Media
will continue to pump out
thousands of articles a day to feed
that page view generating
machine.
Discuss
38 Web/ Internet News Record

When and How Founders Should Firefox Translation Plug

Hire a Professional CEO -In to Increase Global
By Bernard Lunn wants to do all that boring stuff
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 8/26/2009 6:30:30 AM
anyway. Let me do the creative
stuff. and let someone else make
Dialogue
money for me." If you don't have By Dana Oshiro
This is one post/chapter in a such clarity, you will need people (ReadWriteWeb)
serialized book called Startup 101. whom you trust and who know Submitted at 8/25/2009 9:00:00 PM
For the introduction and table of you well to give you an honest
contents, please click here. assessment. And you will need to Yahoo announced its acquisition
There are two schools of thought do some soul-searching. Your of Maktoob today in a deal meant
about founders as CEOs. One decision will depend on many to improve programming in areas
school says that founders rarely factors, mostly personal ones. You like the United Arab Emirates and
make good CEOs: the skill sets are could hire for any skill-set you are Jordan. Wrote VP of Emerging
simply different. The founders missing. You might want to re- Markets Keith Nillson, "We're
may make more money in the end, read the early chapter " Are You committed to responsible global
but they need to hire professional Really an Entrepreneur." It's engagement. This means being
CEOs. The poster children for this Different When the Game Changes sensitive to local laws, customs,
school are Sergey Brin and Larry Markets can change. Let's say you and norms." As critical thinkers,
Page as Google's founders, with are a techie, and your venture was are we going to sit back in our
Eric Schmidt as CEO. The other seemed to work for them. The two set up as a consumer website but English-only culture bubbles or do
school says that no one has as founders made good money and then morphed into a B2B venture, we also want a taste of that global
much passion, drive, and deep avoided a lot of work they did not f o r w h i c h s a l e s s k i l l s a r e engagement? If you're a Firefox
m a r k e t a n d t e c h n o l o g i c a l understand or enjoy. It also avoids paramount. Or vice versa. In such user and you're interested in feature in Internet Explorer.
understanding as the founder, and the issue of which founder should circumstances, you may be smart accessing foreign language sites, Worldwide Lexicon's browser-
so they are best off remaining as become the boss. to say, "I need someone else at the you may want to try the based toolbar seems to improve
CEO. The poster children for this • Triumphant return This has one helm." Don't Let Investors Make Worldwide Lexicon's new where the Google toolbar leaves
school are Bill Gates and Larry blazing success story: the return of T h i s D e c i s i o n T h i s i s y o u r Universal Translator Toolbar. off. One of the great features of the
Ellison. As a founder, which Steve Jobs to Apple. But other decision. Some investors have a Sponsor Worldwide Lexicon project is that
school of thought do you belong ones did not work out so well: very firm view on this. Some fall The Worldwide Lexicon is an you can correct translations or
to? If you have a point of view, Jerry Yang at Yahoo comes to into one school of thought or the open-source project that exists to suggest that a translator improve
how do you make sure your point mind. other. However, some are agnostic, eliminate language barriers using a upon a particular page.
of view prevails? Above all, make • One partner who emerges as letting circumstances guide their combination of human and A Russian friend once mentioned
sure you at least have a point of CEO Bill Gates emerged as the view. Knowing their view before machine translation techniques. that he had a hard time getting
view. leader of Microsoft, not Paul you sign the term sheet would be ReadWriteWeb reviewed the entries accepted into Wikipedia
Sponsor Allen. good, to make sure you both see company in an article on open because he had a hard time
Three Classic Scenarios Which Scenario Do You Want to the world in the same way. If the translation projects. In its latest depoliticizing his words. Rather
• Two equal founders + one new Play Out? Some founders have no VC has a strong view that founders Universal Translator effort, the than removing cultural nuances
CEO This is what happened at doubt. They fall clearly into one never make good CEOs, and the group helps translate entire web from an article, the Universal
both Yahoo and Google. (Yes, the c a m p o r a n o t h e r . T h e y s a y founder thinks, "No way is anyone pages automatically within the Translator gives us a window into
Google story is different in most either..."No way in hell is anyone else running my business," then browsing experience. The Firefox an authentic perspective often
other ways, and no need to rehash else running my business. Back get ready for one big bruising tool enables project members to unlike our own. While no human
Yahoo's later mistakes.) This off. Outta my way!" Or..."Who fight! Discuss create, curate and share or machine translation is perfect,
translations. this effort is a great step towards
In June, ReadWriteWeb covered bridging truly global dialogue.
the Google toolbar's translation Discuss
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Amazon Adds a Virtual Private
Cloud
By Steven Walling
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 8/26/2009 2:33:00 AM
Amazon has launched a new
endeavor that integrates traditional
IT infrastructure with its EC2
cloud service. Amazon Virtual
Private Cloud allows IT to connect
to an isolated set of AWS
resources to a data center using a
VPN connection. Minus all the
acronyms, that means that Amazon
has created a hybrid cloud that can
work securely for the enterprise,
balancing the need for encryption
with the low cost and scaling
power that the cloud provides.
Amazon VPC provides an
avenue for enterprises to more
comfortably link up their
infrastructure with the cloud. For
Amazon, it's an endorsement of the
hybrid approach, but it's also
meant to combat the growing
interest in private clouds. VPC is
currently in limited beta (you can
apply here) and doesn't work with
the S3 cloud storage service or any
other parts of AWS.
Sponsor
The Specs
In a blog post about VPC,
Amazon CTO Werner Vogels
admitted the problems the
company has faced when it comes
to enterprise adoption of their
Gossip Girl goes gay
By Kona Gallagher (TV Squad)
Submitted at 8/26/2009 9:03:00 AM
Everybody thought that Chuck be talking about won't be between
and Blair were going to be the Chuck and Blair, Dan and Serena,
Upper East Side's hottest couple o r
on Gossip Girl this season, but it Vanessa/Jenny/Blair/Serena/rando between two dudes.
l o o k s l i k e w e w e r e w r o n g . m moms. It's totally going to be
cloud services. VPC is clearly an
attempt to dispel the very
legitimate fears that exist when it
comes to the cloud. Here's how it
works in practice:
First a VPC is created and
assigned an IP block, one which
allows only those addresses that
your enterprise wants to use to
access. The VPC is divided up into
subnets, with the maximum being
20 unless you request more.
Next a VPN connection is made
between the gateway and an IPSec
-based router you host. Traffic is
then configured to flow so that the
IP block is applied to the VPN
connection. Once you've got a
VPN with an IP block up and
running, any AWS resources
assigned will be subject to regular
enterprise firewall and routing
policies. Attacking the Private
Cloud Head-on
Vogels spent more than little
effort in his post attacking the idea
of the private cloud. Before he
even got into how VPC worked, he
paused to assert that private clouds
lack the elasticity of Amazon's
services, bluntly declaring, "I don't
think of them as true clouds."
According to Entertainment
Weekly's Michael Ausiello, the
hook-up that everyone is going to
even Nate and
Amazon would surely have
worries without the idea of private
clouds being shopped about, but it
definitely doesn't help for
enterprises to throw up their hands
in vain and try to create their own
miniature versions of public cloud
computing services. VPC is really
a compromise for Amazon that
acknowledges the attraction that
private clouds have for the
enterprise. A Hybrid Cloud
Amazon is basically creating a
hybrid cloud, one that uses some
of the standard enterprise
encryption methods. It seems
they're not alone either. Recently
many companies have been testing
the waters when it comes to this
approach, with Microsoft and
EMC partnering as well as IBM
with Juniper Networks.
There have even been companies
that have attempted to beat
Amazon to the punch by offering
VPN overlays to EC2, such as
Cohesive's VPN-Cubed. It seems
that Amazon has seen the light
when it comes to enticing
enterprises to the cloud. VPC is
recognition that a mixed strategy
that improves security, not a
miraculous shift in enterprise IT
culture, is the way forward.
Discuss
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First iPhone Augmented
Reality App Appears
Live in App Store
By Marshall Kirkpatrick
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 8/25/2009 8:39:27 PM
French app development shop
PresseLite appears to have the first
Augmented Reality (AR)
supporting iPhone app live in the
iTunes store, though we don't
know how they did it. It's called
Metro Paris Subway, and while the
app isn't new, it released a new
version last week that added an
AR overlay that displays
information about Paris businesses
when you look at the city through
your iPhone's camera.
Augmented Reality is the term
for a long-developed set of
technologies that place layers of
information on top of a view of the
real world. Developers and AR-
watchers have believed that no AR
apps would be able to go live in
the iTunes App Store until the next
version of the iPhone OS is
released in Fall. No one we've
talked to has seen any others, but
this one is for sale for 99 cents. It's
possible that it was allowed in by
mistake, or that it's a partial
implementation of AR, but we're
waiting to hear back from the
developers for more details.
While one of the guys in
q u e s t i o n i s g o i n g t o b e a goes gay
newcomer to the show, the other
one is a character that Gossip Girl Reality-Free, Gossip Girl
fans know very well. For all of you
super spoilerphobes out there, I'll Comments
stop here, but for the rest of you,
click through for more details.
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We discovered a video of the app
via Swedish blogger Magnus
Aldemark. Augmented Reality is
being tracked far more closely
outside of the United States than
within it, especially in Europe,
Korea and Japan.
The AR capabilities only work
on the new iPhone 3Gs; both GPS
and a compass are used to
determine location and direction
being pointed at.
AR for the iPhone is eagerly
awaited by iPhone users around
the world. There are several AR
apps available for Android
handsets already. We wrote at
length yesterday about five key
obstacles that Augmented Reality
faces in becoming mainstream. Its
time appears to be coming, though.
Discuss
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Microsoft's Photoshop
Blunder: Racist or
Shortsighted?
By Dana Oshiro
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 8/25/2009 11:00:00 PM
Microsoft doctored a stock image
to appeal to its Polish customers
by literally whitewashing the color
from one of the photo's subjects.
While US web visitors were
greeted by 3 racially diverse
business people, Polish visitors
saw one man replaced by a
Caucasian doppelganger. And it
was so poorly done we wondered
if it was a joke. The Polish site
now bears the original US image,
but the damage has been done.
Said CNET's Ina Fried, "Although
Microsoft would be within reason
to use a different photo on its
Polish site--the country is very
racially homogeneous--the
company is coming under
significant criticism."
Sponsor
The braniac that signed off on
this obviously didn't think about
the racism discussion on this
week's launch of Ghettotweets or
the anger that ensued after the
Japanese "underclass" Google map
Teacher Confronts High School Student Armed With Bombs, a Chainsaw and a Sword
[Crime]
By Sean Fallon (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 8/25/2009 5:40:00 PM
No doubt weighed down by his
aresenal of 10 pipe bombs, a
chainsaw and a sword with a 2-
foot blade, a disturbed 17-year
was released. By quietly trying to
conceal a man's race, Microsoft
has inadvertently made race an
issue.
While the decision to change the
image may have simply been due
to someone trying to save a few
hundred dollars on stock
photography, the marketing
blunder has extremely negative
public implications.
Does racism exist in even the
most progressive companies?
Absolutely. But was Microsoft's
decision to change this particular
image racist or just shortsighted?
Let us know your thoughts in the
comments below. Discuss
old's plan to wreak havoc in a San
Mateo, CA high school was
thwarted by a teacher.
Shortly after two pipe bombs
were detonated in Hillsdale High
School, English language
development teacher Kennet
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Zimbabwe denies Mugabe health
scare
By David Smith (World news
and comment from the
Guardian | guardian.co.uk)
health check-ups, but said all eyes
will now be on a visit by the South
African president, Jacob Zuma,
Joseph Msika, earlier this month.
At Msika's state funeral, Mugabe
said that the "grim reaper" was
Submitted at 8/26/2009 5:19:42 AM tomorrow. insatiable. The president made a
Sources in the ruling Zanu-PF robust speech, but later looked
Times of South Africa says 85- party have said Mugabe will greet drained as he embarked on a long
year-old president being treated in Zuma but if he fails to appear, walkabout.
Dubai hospital after 'serious' scare speculation over his health will Regional sections of Zanu-PF
Speculation over the health of intensify. recently voted Mugabe their
the Zimbabwean president, Robert The Times of South Africa "supreme leader", and it is far from
Mugabe, resurfaced today as a quoted "well-placed sources" as clear who would succeed him in
press report claimed he was being saying Mugabe had been unwell at the event of his death.
treated in a Dubai hospital the weekend and was undergoing Potential replacements include
following a "serious scare". specialist treatment. Mujuru and the defence minister,
The Times of South Africa said The paper said it was believed he Emmerson Mnangagwa, but some
the 85-year-old – who has not been was being treated by a Malaysian analysts have predicted potential
seen in public since last Tuesday, urologist, Awang Kechik, who has anarchy.
when he returned from Namibia – treated him for a prostate condition Tendai Biti, the finance minister
had been secretly taken for for years. Mugabe has never in the unity government, said the
treatment. confirmed rumours that he has unresolved question of succession
His daughter, Bona, is said to prostate cancer. within Zanu-PF posed the biggest
have travelled from Hong Kong to Some of his colleagues in the threat to peace and stability in
Dubai to be with him. Zanu-PF politburo claimed they Zimbabwe. Morgan Tsvangirai,
Z i m b a b w e a n o f f i c i a l s "do not know where the president the country's prime minister, has
immediately dismissed the report, is", the Times of South Africa said. remarked that Mugabe must be
calling it the product of "sick and Mugabe missed the recent burial seen as part of the solution to that
evil minds". of his long-time comrade in the uncertainty.
"The president is not sick, but l i b e r a t i o n s t r u g g l e , S e n a t o r • Robert Mugabe
was away on holiday," one told the R i c h a r d H o v e , a p o l i t b u r o • Zimbabwe
Associated Press. "He returned member. The acting president, David Smith
home yesterday, and those reports Joice Mujuru, presided over the guardian.co.uk© Guardian News
are a load of rubbish." ceremony. & Media Limited 2009 | Use of
Journalists in Zimbabwe also Mugabe is the oldest member of this content is subject to our Terms
played down the rumours, saying Zimbabwe's government following & Conditions| More Feeds
Mugabe often travelled abroad for the death of the vice-president,
him down with the help of a few you never hear about the loud,
other members of the faculty until outgoing class clown going all
the police arrived. Not leatherface on his classmates. [
surprisingly, the kid is being SFGate]
described as "quiet," "shy," and
Santana tackled the boy—pinning "reclusive." It's always the person
you least suspect, as they say, but
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Urgently need an
Ted Kennedy dies Intel build of
By Lee Glendinning, Mark husband, father, grandfather, operators, crafting legislation by 2008 Democratic primary – much
Tran (World news and brother and uncle we loved so working with colleagues and to the disappointment of Hillary OPML Editor/Mac
comment from the Guardian | deeply, died late Tuesday night at presidents of both parties and and Bill Clinton – was seen as a
(Scripting News)
guardian.co.uk) home in Hyannis Port finding unlikely allies. huge boost to Obama's campaign.
Submitted at 8/25/2009 6:15:51 AM
Submitted at 8/26/2009 6:21:39 AM (Massachusetts)," the Kennedy At the same time he clung to Obama said that as president he
family said in a statement. "We've liberal causes and was considered benefited from Kennedy's I thought about writing a more
One of the most influential and lost the irreplaceable centre of our a political dinosaur by centrist "encouragement and wisdom" creative headline, but opted instead
longest serving senators in US family and joyous light in our "New Democrats" and rightwing even as the senator battled brain for a direct request for help.
history had battled brain cancer lives, but the inspiration of his Republicans. He helped enact cancer. 1. Yesterday I pre-ordered a
since May 2008 faith, optimism and perseverance measures to protect civil and As world leaders paid their family pack of Snow Leopard. As I
Barack Obama has said he and will live on in our hearts forever." labour rights, expand healthcare, tributes, Gordon Brown, the understand it, the new version of
his wife, Michelle, were Ted Kennedy was diagnosed upgrade schools, increase student British prime minister, said the Mac OS will run PPC apps
"heartbroken" to hear Senator Ted with a brain tumour in May 2008. aid and contain the spread of Kennedy would be "mourned not only with special software loaded,
Kennedy has died from a brain Like his two assassinated brothers nuclear weapons. just in America but in every the way earlier versions of the OS
tumour at the age of 77. – President John Kennedy and the "There's a lot to do," Kennedy continent". ran Mac Classic apps.
As tributes poured in from across presidential candidate Robert told Reuters in 2006. "I think most Tributes came from across the 2. The OPML Editor for the Mac
the world, the US president spoke Kennedy – he had been expected of all it's the injustice that I political spectrum – testimony to is a PPC app.
of his gratitude to the American to scale great political heights. The continue to see and the opportunity his ability to form close bonds 3. It is also an instance of the
elder statesman and of Kennedy's fourth brother, Joe Kennedy, was a to have some impact on it." with political opponents. The GPL'd Frontier kernel, which I
indelible mark on the country's pilot killed in the second world After Robert Kennedy's death in former first lady Nancy Reagan understand has been converted to
politics. war. 1968, Ted was expected to emulate said: "Given our political be an Intel app.
"I valued his wise counsel in the Ted Kennedy's career was his brothers' presidential differences, people are sometimes 4. I can build the Windows
Senate, where, regardless of the significantly blighted by the ambitions. But then came surprised by how close Ronnie and version of the OPML Editor.
swirl of events, he always had time Chappaquiddick incident of 1969 Chappaquiddick. Kennedy's image I have been to the Kennedy family. However, I cannot build the Mac
for a new colleague," Obama said. in which the car he was driving ran suffered irreparable damage when In recent years Ted and I found our version. It's been a long time since
"I cherished his confidence and off a bridge and plunged into the it emerged that he had failed to common ground in stem cell I worked at the C level, last time I
momentous support in my race for water, killing Mary Jo Kopechne. immediately report the accident to research, and I considered him an did was with THINK C on the Mac
the presidency." While he never reached the authorities. He pleaded guilty to ally and a dear friend. I will miss in the mid-90s. I've tried to build
Obama stressed Kennedy's pinnacle of power, Kennedy leaving the scene and received a him." the Mac app on XCode, but I
political contribution, saying: "An eventually shed his playboy image suspended sentence. Orrin Hatch, a Republican always hit a problem that I don't
important chapter in our history to become a serious political Kennedy eventually ran for his senator from Utah, said: "Today know how to work around, and
has come to an end. Our country presence in the Senate. His death party's presidential nomination in America lost a great elder honestly I don't want to struggle at
has lost a great leader, who picked marks the twilight of a political 1980 but lost to the incumbent statesman, a committed public this level. I'm going to stick to
up the torch of his fallen brothers dynasty and deals a blow to president, Jimmy Carter, his servant and leader of the senate. developing in the OPML
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States senator of our time." overhaul of the healthcare system, after failing to tell a TV friend." kernel build on both Mac and
Kennedy, the last surviving one of Kennedy's personal goals. interviewer why he wanted to • Edward Kennedy Windows, I may look at working
brother of America's leading When Ted Kennedy first took become America's leader. • The Kennedys inside the C codebase.
political dynasty, was the senior the Senate seat previously held by His presidential ambitions • United States 5. I need someone to get a build
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42 World/ Internet News Record

French agent 'kills Somali captors' Sri Lankan troops

By Sam Jones, Lizzy Davies
(World news and comment
from the Guardian |
was handed over to Hezb al-Islam,
the other to fighters from the al-
Shabaab group, which the US
Brennan, an Australian– have been
held for a year.
The lawlessness has allowed
'executed' Tamils
guardian.co.uk) describes as al-Qaida's proxy in piracy to flourish off the coast, By Randeep Ramesh (World this year, independent journalists
Submitted at 8/26/2009 6:41:28 AM the Horn of Africa state. making Somali coastal waters news and comment from the and non-governmental agencies
Farhan Asanyo, a Somali some of the most dangerous in the Guardian | guardian.co.uk) were not allowed access to the war
Mystery surrounds return of military officer, said the man world. Submitted at 8/26/2009 3:54:20 AM zone or areas bordering it. The
hostage as France denies violent approached government soldiers Many fear the power vacuum in events have been described as a
escape while kidnappers claim early today telling them who he Somalia will provide a haven for Video purporting to show soldier "war without witnesses".
ransom was paid was and that he had escaped. terrorists, as the military and shooting two unarmed men in back A spokesman for the Sri Lankan
A French security agent "The man told them that he was police are weak and in disarray. of head shown on Indian and high commission in Delhi said his
k i d n a p p e d b y i n s u r g e n t s i n one of the French officials held by Various Islamist groups have British TV government "categorically denied"
Somalia last month is under militants," Asanyo said. "He said been fighting the UN-backed Sri Lanka "categorically denied" the report of atrocities.
protection at the presidential he escaped after killing three of his government since being chased that its troops were involved in "We have seen many cases where
palace in Mogadishu after being captors, and we sent him to the from power two-and-a-half years war crimes against Tamils after a u n v e r i f i e d v i d e o a n d
freed. presidential palace." ago. The situation is further video surfaced allegedly showing a photographers have been used to
There are conflicting reports Although the Somali authorities complicated by the continual government soldier shooting two undermine Sri Lanka. This appears
surrounding his release. The had initially said both men had splintering and reforming of naked men in the back of the head. another example," he said. "The
Somali military claimed the man been freed, the statement was alliances and the web of clan The footage, shown on British troops only engaged in a military
escaped after killing three of his s w i f t l y r e t r a c t e d , w i t h t h e loyalties. and Indian television, showed a offensive against the LTTE."
captors, but the French foreign government later saying it was Near battles break out between man in a distinctive army outfit According to the United Nations,
office issued a statement saying "continuing its efforts to secure the government and insurgent forces shooting the men, who appear up to 100,000 people were killed
"his liberation was brought about release of the second hostage". in the capital, Mogadishu, on an naked, bound and blindfolded, in in the three decades of Sri Lanka's
without violence, contrary to Foreigners rarely travel to almost daily basis. Tens of the back of the head. civil war that ended in May. The
certain information given locally". Somalia, which has not had a thousands of civilians have been Later, the camera pans to show a conflict finished only after the
The Islamist group Hezb al- functioning government for 18 killed in the conflict. muddy field littered with the army overran rebel positions and
Islam, which was holding the man, years since warlords overthrew a • Somalia bodies of half a dozen men in killed the Tamil Tigers' leader,
claimed he was freed after a brutal socialist dictator, then • France pools of their own blood. Velupillai Prabhakaran, who had
ransom was paid. unleashed their militias on each • Global terrorism The Guardian could not verify fought for a separate state carved
He and another French agent, other. Sam Jones Lizzy Davies the contents of the video which out of Sri Lanka.
who are thought to have been in Kidnappings have risen in recent guardian.co.uk© Guardian News had been obtained by a group More than 280,000 civilians are
Somalia to train government forces years, with journalists and aid & Media Limited 2009 | Use of c a l l e d t h e J o u r n a l i s t s f o r now living in state-run camps. Sri
in their fight against Islamist workers often targeted. Two this content is subject to our Terms Democracy in Sri Lanka, believed Lanka says that they cannot return
militias, were snatched from a foreign media workers – Amanda & Conditions| More Feeds to be made up of Sinhalese and home until mine clearing has been
hotel in the capital on 14 July. One Lindhout, a Canadian and Nigel Tamil reporters, some of whom finished and said it is deploying
fled the island after the Sri Lankan more troops to "clean up" former
army crushed the rebel Tamil conflict zones in the north of the
Tigers. island.
The group claimed the video • Sri Lanka
footage was taken in January by a Randeep Ramesh
soldier using a mobile phone. guardian.co.uk© Guardian News
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'Lies made me file for Berlusconi Warehouse 13: Duped

By Mike Moody (TV Squad)
divorce' Submitted at 8/26/2009 2:42:00 AM

(S01E08) Warehouse 13 finally

(World news and comment fondness for young women. Lario's lawyer was not available delivered an insane episode worthy
from the Guardian | Berlusconi has denied having for comment. of the show's strange and
guardian.co.uk) any improper relationship with Lario caused a political storm ridiculous premise. Steve Rubel's
Submitted at 8/26/2009 4:53:23 AM Letizia or any other women. when she announced her decision bewitched disco ball mated with
The book published today is a to divorce. Both the Italian and Lewis Carroll's magic mirror to
Veronica Lario decided to revised edition of one first international media have since make Myka switch places with
divorce Italian PM after he failed published in 2004 by the journalist competed for new allegations Carol's "Alice," who turned out to
to tell her he would attend model's Maria Latella. linking the 72-year-old Berlusconi be a really creepy serial killer.
birthday party, says book In the new edition, she quotes 53 to models and even a prostitute. Now this is the kind of stuff I
The estranged wife of the Italian -year-old Lario as saying the Berlusconi has denied ever wanna see.
prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, Naples incident was the latest paying a woman for sex, and has If you ask Syfy's marketing
has claimed his alleged lies pushed problem in her relationship with dismissed the allegations as lies folks, tonight's ep was all about the
her to file for divorce as he became her husband. fabricated by the opposition and guest stars, Eureka's Erica Cerra
embroiled in a sex scandal. "It was the latest lie," Lario said. "left-leaning" media. and Niall Matter. They were
In the book, Tendenza Veronica, "Better, then, to try to seek a last He has maintained his popularity serviceable as married grifters forefront, of course).
(Veronica's Trend) – published way to respect myself – better to in Italy despite the scandal and the addicted to a cool little artifact, but Continue reading Warehouse 13:
today – Veronica Lario describes d i v o r c e . H e p u t m e i n t h i s centre-right coalition which won they were pushed to the Duped
how she made the decision in s i t u a t i o n . " elections last year has remained background just like Tricia Helfer Filed under: Other Sci-
April after Berlusconi failed to Lario, a former actor with whom stable. and Joe Flanigan before them. Fi/Supernatural Shows, Episode
mention that he would attend a Berlusconi has three children, said • Silvio Berlusconi "Duped" was really all about Reviews, Reality-Free
Naples birthday party for an 18- his actions were embarrassing him • Italy watching the Warehouse team do Permalink| Email this| |
year-old model. on a global level. guardian.co.uk© Guardian News some much-needed bonding (and Comments
His attendance at Noemi "I cannot be his babysitter, and I & Media Limited 2009 | Use of bringing the weirdness and the
Letizia's party was later reported in cannot stop him any more from this content is subject to our Terms screwball comedy elements to the
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allegations over his purported of the world," she said. "I'm done."

Microsoft sorry for race-swap advert

By Bobbie Johnson (World however, the advert - which spokesman in a statement. "We "I think the intention was to make
news and comment from the promised Polish businesses the apologise and are in the process of this ad even more PC, since you
Guardian | guardian.co.uk) chance to "to boost your pulling down the image." now have an Asian guy, a woman
Submitted at 8/26/2009 4:27:58 AM employees using the right tools" - Although the doctored image has and a black guy's body with a
had replaced the head of the black quickly removed and replaced with white guy's head."
Software giant Microsoft has worker with a badly super- the original, it has already become • Microsoft
issued an apology after it emerged imposed face of a white man. His the target of online jokes. • Internet
that the company's Polish arm had o n e v i s i b l e h a n d , h o w e v e r , On the Photoshop Disasters blog, • Advertising
altered a promotional image to r e m a i n e d u n c h a n g e d . where readers dissect bad photo • Race issues
change the race of one of the The image began circulating editing, questioned whether should Bobbie Johnson
people pictured. online on Tuesday and after being have chosen to use the original guardian.co.uk© Guardian News
In the US, the image featured alerted to the switch, Microsoft rather than "clumsily get rid of the & Media Limited 2009 | Use of
three employees sitting around a took down the image and said it black guy". this content is subject to our Terms
meeting table - one white woman, was trying to discover who was One user jokingly suggested that & Conditions| More Feeds
and two men, one black and one responsible. the gaffe was actually an attempt
Asian. "We are looking into the details to cram more racial backgrounds
When it was used in Poland, of this situation," said a Microsoft into a single image.
44 AppleBlog/ Entertainment/
TextExpander available for iPhone/iPod touch
By TJ Luoma (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 8/25/2009 10:30:00 PM
Filed under: Software, iPhone,
App Store, App Review
TextExpander for the Mac has
been one of my favorite utilities
for several years. The ability to
define "snippets" of text which
expand into words, phrases,
sentences, or even the outline of
entire documents has been
invaluable.
When I heard that TextExpander
was coming to the iPhone/iPod
touch, my first reaction was
"WHAT!" and my second reaction
was "How?"
On the Mac, TextExpander sits
in the background, waiting
patiently for you to type some set
of characters which matches an
abbreviation that you have
previously defined. For example,
when I type "/address"
TextExpander jumps into action
and replaces "/address" with "10
Main St." If I type "!phone"
TextExpander will automatically
replace that text with my work,
home, and cell phone numbers.
On the iPhone, third party
applications are not allowed to sit
in the background, even if they
promise to wait patiently. That's a
limitation of the iPhone OS, and
whether you think it's a smart
move by Apple or an unnecessary
one, the reality is that
What the heck is this?
By Bob Sassone (TV Squad)
Submitted at 8/26/2009 9:30:00 AM
This is the game where we show
you a picture from something TV-
related and you have to guess what
TextExpander touch can't do
everything that TextExpander for
the Mac can do. SmileOnMyMac
has posted about this on their blog
and has even released an SDK for
iPhone developers who wish to
integrate TextExpander's
technology into their iPhone
applications.
Let's just take it for granted that
most of us who use TextExpander
would love to see it running on the
iPhone like we do on the Mac.
That said, there is still a lot this
app can do.
When launched, TextExpander
for iPhone gives you a "Compose"
window where you can type a
message and have it expand your
shortcuts, and from there you can:
"Send to Mail" (which will put the
text into a "compose" window in
Mail), "Copy All Text" (which
does exactly what you'd expect), or
"Send To Twitter Client" which
will send the text to a Twitter
client (which you have to choose
in the app's preferences).
TextExpander for iPhone
supports the following Twitter
apps on the iPhone: Twitterrific,
Twitterrific Premium, Tweetie,
Twittelator Pro, TwitterFon, and
TwitterFon Pro.
Before TweetDeck and Birdfeed
users form an angry mob to march
on SmileOnMyMac headquarters,
let me direct your attention to the
TextExpander touch FAQ which
explains that:
the heck it is.
OK, we know what the heck is
this, but what is it from? Hint: it's
from the opening of a TV series
that ran several years ago.
Whoever gets this wins ... well, nothing, but you'll prove yourself
Some Twitter clients, such as
TweetDeck and Birdfeed, do not
support a URL schema such that
they can be launched by
TextExpander along with message
content.
If you're not familiar with the
phrase "URL schema," it means
"There's no way for one iPhone
app to send text to these apps,
unless these apps are updated to
offer the kind of programming
'hooks' which are present in the
supported Twitter apps." Or, to put
it another way, imagine
TextExpander doing its best Han
Solo impersonation saying "It's not
my fault!" So please, save your
torches and pitchforks for the
inevitable zombie attack.
TextExpander is all about saving
time, so you'll be glad to know that
you won't have to re-type all of
your favorite "snippets." You can
to be a major TV fan. Answer later
tonight!
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sync all of the TextExpander
shortcuts that you have defined on
your Mac, so they'll be at your
fingertips when you move over to
TextExpander touch. I have some
"snippets" that I use when
responding to emails which I've
been unable to answer on my
iPhone. Now I can use those same
responses easily and not have to
worry about forgetting about them
later.
TextExpander touch is now
available at the App Store. The
introductory price will be $1.99
until September 9th. After that it
will be $4.99.
Although obviously held back by
the restrictions imposed by the
operating system, TextExpander
looks like a great utility for
sending messages through your
iPhone. Longer messages don't
have to take a long time. I hope
that some industrious Twitter
client developer will look at
integrating the TextExpander
touch SDK.
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for iPhone/iPod touch originally
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Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 25 Aug
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Connecticut man consults Apple

Genius and gets arrested
By Mel Martin (The Unofficial make him an accessory under
Apple Weblog (TUAW)) some state laws. Apple warns
Submitted at 8/25/2009 1:30:00 PM people to always have a good
backup of their data when they
Filed under: Odds and ends, bring something in for repair. It's
PowerMac G5 Editor's Note: Some also a good idea to remove
comments to this post suggest that anything you don't want anyone
TUAW is "giving advice to else to see -- financial data or
pedophiles" by reminding readers
that sensitive information could be
read or copied by service
home inventories, for example.
This incident is reminiscent of 2
cases in Florida where the Best
Malware detection
technicians when you bring your
Mac in for repair. While one
Buy Geek Squad techs found
illegal porn on computers brought
assumes (present example to the thumbnails were overwriting in for repair. The employees
coming in Snow
contrary) that people who keep thumbnails on other images and reported the porn, and both men
illegal content, such as child they didn't match up.
pornography or evidence of other As reported in the Stamford
were arrested.
Then in an ironic turnabout, a
Leopard?
crimes, on their computers would Advocate, according to court three-month investigation by the By Michael Rose (The away the disk image. While this is
already be alert to the possibility documents, the Genius started Consumerist blog caught Geek Unofficial Apple Weblog a nice touch for the two security
of discovery, in this case we are examining the files, and allegedly Squad employees taking porn off a (TUAW)) risks in question, The Register
addressing the innocent Mac users found pictures of naked juvenile computer and sharing it with Submitted at 8/25/2009 9:00:00 PM notes that the filter appears to only
who would prefer to keep their girls in suggestive poses. others. It was also alleged that catch files downloaded through
personal, legal information private Filed under: Security, Snow some of the more common apps
The tech called a policeman who some employees routinely stole Leopard We usually look at news (Mail.app, Entourage, Safari,
rather than inadvertently sharing it was stationed at the mall, and the music, pictures and other data
with the Geniuses. updates and blog posts from Firefox and iChat among them) but
customer Raymond Miller was from computers that were in for antivirus vendor Intego with a bit n o t f i l e s c o p i e d o v e r f r o m
Another commenter objected to promptly arrested and charged repair by copying the data off to
our publishing of the accused w i t h p o s s e s s i o n o f c h i l d personal thumb drives. of a gimlet eye, since the company removable media. It doesn't cover
man's name; this information was pornography. If convicted, Miller Via The Stamford Advocate and has been known to spread a little the wider gamut of threats out
revealed in the source article in the faces a minimum of 5 years in jail. thanks to Doug for the tip. bit of that good old FUD when it there, nor would it detect or block
Stamford Advocate and we TUAW Connecticut man comes to the everyday risk of Windows malware that a Mac user
Police also searched Miller's malware faced by most Mac users could unwittingly transmit; for all
repeated it. The post has been home, but found nothing illegal. consults Apple Genius and gets
edited to clarify the source of the (that is to say, pretty much none). of those scenarios, a true AV app (
Remember, when you bring your arrested originally appeared on Today, however, the Intego blog paid or free) is what the doctor
name. Mac into a store for service the The Unofficial Apple Weblog
A Fairfield, Connecticut man t e c h n i c i a n s w i l l l i k e l y s e e (TUAW) on Tue, 25 Aug 2009 pointed out an unheralded feature ordered.
took his Apple G5 desktop to the whatever is on your machine in the 13:30:00 EST. Please see our of the forthcoming Mac OS X 10.6 You can keep up with all the
Genius Bar at the Stamford Town course of repairing it. terms for use of feeds. Snow Leopard update: some basic latest Snow Leopard news via our
Center store complaining about Read| Permalink| Email this| malware checking built into the category page.
The tech could have ignored the operating system, reported by TUAW Malware detection
some issues with his image file alleged porn, but that could likely Comments
thumbnails. It seemed some users of the beta version. coming in Snow Leopard?
As the post notes (and sites such o r i g i n a l l y a p p e a r e d o n T h e
a s T h e R e g i s t e r a n d Z D n e t Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
corroborate), when a problematic on Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:00:00
DMG is downloaded or mounted -- EST. Please see our terms for use
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malware components -- the Finder Read| Permalink| Email this|
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software in question and to throw
46 AppleBlog/ Tech Musings/
First Look: Ramp Champ adds
carnival fun to your iPhone
By Michael Rose (The
Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW))
Submitted at 8/25/2009 12:30:00 PM
Filed under: Gaming, iPhone,
App Store, App Review
If you've seen Kevin Smith's
Dogma, you know that a key
character ends up incapacitated for
much of the film as a consequence
of his/her unusual obsession with
the carnival game Skee-Ball. The
whole uncomfortable situation
could have been avoided with an
iPhone or iPod touch and the new
app from the Iconfactory and
DSMediaLabs, Ramp Champ. The
game brings the sounds and skill
of classic carnival ball-toss
challenges right into your pocket
with a great deal of style and fun.
The $1.99 Ramp Champ app [
iTunes link] provides four separate
levels of ball toss challenges,
ranging from three rows of clown
targets to a rather familiar garden
of bitmapped icons. Each level
provides scoring & prize
opportunities for knocking down
the clowns, fish, invaders or icons;
if you match one of three bonus
conditions for the level (including,
on the icon garden board, tracking
down the elusive dogcow), you'll
get an award for your excellent
performance.
After each session of tossing,
you collect prize tickets that you
can turn in at the app's gallery of
virtual stuffed stuff -- fuzzy dice,
anyone? Aside from the four levels
that ship with the app, there are
four more levels (featuring
unicorns, ninjas, teeth and tiki!)
that will be available for in-app
purchase at $0.99 per 2-level pack.
Beyond the straightforward-yet-
addictive game physics (you may
find your thumb aching after a
while as you press a little too hard
to flick the ball), the biggest draw
of Ramp Champ is how stunningly
pretty it is. Although we are often
spoiled by the visual effort and
consistency of Iconfactory
projects, the team has really
outdone itself with Ramp Champ.
Every corner of the screen is
participating in the carnival look
and feel of the game; even the
sound and music design feels
'right.' For such a simple game, it's
surprisingly immersive.
While the game is a visual
delight, unfortunately it shares a
characteristic with many other 1.0
iPhone apps; it's a wee bit crashy,
at least in my first day of playing.
The app documentation suggests a
device restart to clear out memory
before trying to play. As Touch
Arcade points out, the flick-to-toss
gameplay is similar to the ad-
supported app Paper Toss; if you
find it hard to control the ball rolls
in that game, you'll probably be
challenged/frustrated by RC as
well.
Here's a screenshot gallery from
Ramp Champ.
Gallery: IconFactory's Ramp
Champ for iPhone
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How to get Lessig to
blog
(Scripting News) realized now, only they're using
Submitted at 8/25/2009 7:23:04 AM Twitter and Facebook and blogs,
and they have to communicate
I t ' s s a d t h a t L e s s i g i s directly with the electorate because
"hibernating" his blog, but there's the news industry is crumbling.
always hope. It's easy to say 2. The controversy betw Lessig
goodbye, but what's he going to do and myself in 2001 and 2002 was
when he has something that has to over whether software developers
be said right now. Wait two years should be required to release their
to write and publish a book? I sure source code to get copyright
hope not! protection (at least that's how I
In his supposedly last blog post interpreted it). I was vehement in
(heh) Lessig points to his first post, saying no, that we were already
which was a response to something putting our ideas out there and that
I wrote in response to something putting the source code out there
he said. In 2001 and 2002. It's too would give us nothing to sell. I
i n t e r e s t i n g t o r e c o u n t t h e still believe the logic of that, but
exchange, because only seven s i n c e t h e n I g a v e u p o n
years later things have changed a commercial software and in 2004 I
lot. released my main work under the
1. First Lessig tells a story of GPL. There was no parade, no new
Hemingway and source code, an respect or even thanks from people
analogy that I feel is flawed. And I outside the community that already
say so, very strongly, but hopefully used the software. Did it inspire
not in a personal way. any young would-be designers?
2. Then in August 2002, I Time will tell, but it's looking
expanded it, and on re-reading it -- doubtful. Just saying it's harder to
I said some things that were a bit influence the future than it should
too much. A difference of opinion be, or maybe not -- who knows.
between two learned people 3. I like to think that Lessig and I
shouldn't involve throwing people have now become friends. Just
out and "up yours." goes to show that when there's a
3. This got Lessig to write his spark between two people, it may
first blog post! So there is a silver express itself in a variety of ways.
lining. I admire Lessig, I've come to see
Now the hindsight. him as an open-minded, generous
1. In 2002 I said in five years person who really listens. All good
every member of the US House things!
will have a weblog and will be 4. I don't believe for a second
communicating directly with the that he's given up blogging.
electorate. I'd say that's been
Internet News Record AppleBlog/ Tech Musings/ 47

Greetings from 30,000 feet How to fix URL-

By David Winograd (The
Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW))
sold in hobby store racks in
baggies containing a cassette tape
and a mimeographed instruction
shorteners, part II
Submitted at 8/26/2009 3:00:00 AM sheet. Getting the volume level (Scripting News)
just right was critical for Submitted at 8/25/2009 3:17:41 PM
Filed under: Blogging, TUAW computing since one mistake and
Business, Apple History I'm typing you needed to go back to the start Last Wednesday I wrote a piece
this somewhere in the skies over of the tape. When playing a that explained how to fix URL-
Utah using a fast wireless game,when you lost, the tape shorteners. Today, with the help of
connection on an 8 GB MacBook would rewind and reload taking Joe Moreno at Adjix, I
Pro killing time while flying to Las another 20 minutes. implemented it.
Vegas. When I started with Ah -- Good times! Here's how my new URL-
computers this experience would Since then I started what was shortener works.
have been considered somewhere arguably the first themed 1. Joe is running the shortener at
between science fiction and magic. BBS(Bulletin Board Service) in adjix.com. It's the same one he's
Hi, I'm David Winograd and New Jersey, called'David's Place' always been running, but it's got a
although I've been writing for which was themed like a restaurant few new features.
TUAW for a couple of months, all that read like Zork. After signing 2. In the prefs for Adjix, I told it
of us new arrivals have been asked on and getting my first monthly that I wanted to use my own
to write an introduction to give all CompuServe bill, which was over domain, c.oy.ly. I also told it to
of you an idea of just who is $2,000, I wheedled a decade-long write copies of all my shortened
writing this stuff. CompuServe gig checking Apple URLs to a bucket at Amazon,
Steve Sande introduced himself could be done with what seemed to ][ downloads and later running which I had given his app
as the old guy in a piece he did me as the best toy since the their Macintosh Community Club permission to write to. By using
when coming on board. Well, I'm Betamax. Forum. I also wrote for the long my own domain, one which I linking to and adds the full URL
the new old guy. I beat out Steve control the DNS for, and retaining
Eventually I saved enough to dead Apple ][ GS Buyers Guide. a copy of all the data, I am fully
from step 3, and redirects me to
by a couple of years, but we both buy the Apple ][+ at a franchise Continue reading Greetings from twitter.com, where I can edit the
have gray beards and wear safari- called ComputerLand(also defunct, 30,000 feet protected against his service going tweet before clicking on Update.
looking hats from time to time. TUAW Greetings from 30,000 away. And I can decide at any time 5. Then, every few minutes I call
there's a pattern to this), where for to take over hosting of my own
I got started with my first Apple $1795 I bought a 48k processor, a feet originally appeared on The the Twitter API and ask if Dave
][+ in 1979 after overdosing on bunch of expansion slots and a Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) short URLs by directing the c.oy.ly has posted any new tweets. If so, I
Creative Computing, a long yellow on black, decidedly non- on Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:00:00 domain to s3.amazonaws.com parse them, store the long and
defunct hobbyist magazine. I was graphics capable monitor. No disk EST. Please see our terms for use instead of partner.adjix.com. short versions of the URL in my
in awe of all the neat (albeit drive of course since Apple hadn't of feeds. 3. When I create a shortened database (by dereferencing the
amazingly pointless and even more made them yet, so programs were Read| Permalink| Email this| URL, I do it by calling an API URL). Then I call a second API on
amazingly expensive) things that Comments routine that works exactly as the Adjix to ask it to give me the
APIs of the other shorteners. I give counts for the most recent 50 links
it the long URL, some identifying created by Dave. I then update the
information so it knows to counts in my database, sort them,
associate it with my Adjix account, and prepare the familiar Top-40
and it returns a token, which I report.
smash together with http://c.oy.ly/ Bottom-line: I am now using
to form the shortened URL. URL-shorteners in a way that does
4. All this is done with a not make the Internet suck. I have
bookmarklet communicating with done my good deed for the day!
a web app on one of my servers. It
then takes the title of the page I'm
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In Las Vegas? Bring your own video to The
Mirage
By David Winograd (The
Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW))
Submitted at 8/26/2009 12:00:00 AM
Filed under: Accessories,
Peripherals, Video
We just stayed at the Mirage
Hotel in Las Vegas for a week, and
found that the guest rooms are
more than Mac friendly. In each
room, built right into the wall, is a
system from Teledapt that allows
you to plug in just about anything
and have it show up on the in-
room 42" plasma screen.
As long as you have the right
cable that plugs into your Mac and
sports a VGA connector on the
other side like the mini DVI to
VGA cable, or the Mini Display
Port to VGA cable, depending on
the age of your Mac, you've got
video. Add a simple male to male
headphone cable to push sound
and you're in business.
MSI Confirms Wind U150 Netbook with Touchscreen and Intel's
Next Atom [Notebooks]
By Joanna Stern (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 8/25/2009 5:00:00 PM
We heard that MSI may release a
touchscreen netbook with Intel's
next generation Pine Trail Atom
platform, and it will. According to
MSI, the new Intel Atom chipset is
planned to be officially launched at
CES.
However, Intel tells us that it has
not nailed down the launch of Pine
Don't have a Mac? A video
capable iPod or iPhone will do just
as well, at least it will if you're
cool with the less than perfect
video quality on the 42" screen.
For that, you need an iPod/iPhone
30 pin dock connector to 3 wire
RCA cable. Either way, choose the
right input on the video system and
Trail yet and maintains it will ship
products to its customers before
the end of the year. MSI hopes to
be first to market with Pine Trail
netbooks, including its 10-inch
convertible U150 with Windows 7.
Either way, the sooner we get a
newer Atom the better (also keep
in mind the next version of the all-
popular Atom also differs by
blending the CPU and GPU on the Andy Tung, Pine Trail is showing
same chip). According to MSI's improved graphics performance
once again, you're in.
But wait! There's more.
If you forgot your charger, you
can plug in a standard USB to
iPod/iPhone cable right into the
system and as long as your device
is new enough, meaning that it
uses 5 volts and not 12 volts for
charging (as all USB-capable iPod
devices do), plug it in and it'll juice
right up.
There is a bit of fine print. If you
forgot the right cable, the Mirage
gift store will be happy to sell it to
you at a price that will make you
gag. And if you decide you would
like Internet, in-room wireless will
set you back $14.95 for a 24-hour
period while Motel 6 gives it to
you for free. But hey -- this is
Vegas baby!!
The Volcano isn't too shabby
either.
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your own video to The Mirage
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and at least 20 percent better
power consumption.
We are hoping the netvertible
with its planned resistive
touchscreen performs better than
ASUS' Eee PC T91. However its
lack of a capacitive screen and
multitouch support means it won't
support any of Windows 7's cool
Touch Pack apps.
But before going touch, MSI will
release the 12-inch Wind U210,
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MacGyver Chef:
Poached Chicken and
Couscous in a Coffee
Maker [Macgyver Chef]
By Dan Nosowitz (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 8/25/2009 6:00:00 PM
For the first recipe in our
MacGyver Chef series, I tackled
one of the lowliest of kitchen
gadgets: The coffee maker. Since
it sucks at brewing coffee, I
wondered if there was some other
use for it...
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which like the recently released
Gateway LT3100, has AMD's
Yukon platform rather than Intel's
Atom. MSI will offer it in two
different skus, including one with
Windows XP, 1GB of RAM and a
160GB hard drive for $379 and
another with Vista Premium for
$429. The U210 will be available
in the U.S. during the first weeks
of September.
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Equipment: Just your bog-
standard, hotel-issue drip coffee
maker. Mine was $25. They're all
pretty much the same.
Ingredients:
• Boneless skinless chicken
breasts (tenders are smaller and
cook faster)
• 1-2 pats butter or margarine
• ~ 1/2 cup couscous
• Water
• Seasonings—I used one of
Trader Joe's herb/spice blends
Notes: MacGyver Chef is about
doing something with as little gear
as possible. So even though I have
a full kitchen at my disposal, I
limited all prep to the coffee maker
and its carafe. I used this guide
from WikiHow as a starter. I
veered from the recipe at least in
flavoring the chicken, and in my
choice of a side. Remember to salt
and pepper everything—this dish
dangerously toes the line between
edible and horribly bland, so
season the crap out of it.
Step 1: Measure out about a
centimeter of water in the carafe
and dump it in the coffee maker's
reservoir to heat up. Then stick
your chicken and butter in the
carafe and douse it with seasoning.
Flip the coffeemaker on and hot
Eight of TV's toughest interrogators
By Allison Waldman (TV
Squad)
Submitted at 8/26/2009 10:00:00 AM
The fine art of interrogation may
seem lost thanks to suspects
lawyering up and the Miranda
warning. Whatever happened to
the days when a snarling cop could
throw a perp against a brick wall to
get him to squeal? Or a sly
questioner could finagle a
confession by laying on a guilt
water will soon flow into the
carafe.
Try to get the water to cover less
than half the chicken; we're
poaching, not boiling, so if the
water gets too high, dump the
excess out in the sink. Let it cook
15 minutes on this side, stirring
once so the butter mixes in with
the poaching liquid.
Step 2: Flip your chicken. You'll
notice here that the chicken is
cooking, but there's no Maillard
reaction (that's what Alton-Brown-
loving nerds call browning).
Coffee makers just don't get hot
enough to brown meat. I tried to
pan-fry a cutlet on the burner and
it refused to take on any color. It's
probably just as well, because if
the coffeemaker got hot enough to
brown meat, it'd burn the crap out
of your coffee—and your mouth.
Let it cook for another 15 minutes
on this side, then remove from the
carafe. It's time to prep your side
dish.
Step 3: I chose couscous. The
original recipe suggested instant
mashed potatoes, but it also used
the word "flakes" to describe these
so-called potatoes and that pretty
much creeped me out. I decided to
try an entirely different starch.
trip? Still, there are some very
clever, brilliant interrogators
plying their trade on these days. In
fact, when you look at these eight
interrogators, you'll probably agree
that they know just how to get to
the truth. Here are the eight top
interrogators on TV today:
8. Captain James Brass, CSI
Brass is the most "old school" of
all these interrogators. He's like
Andy Sipowicz from NYPD Blue,
only without the violence. Brass
Couscous cooks incredibly fast
and all it takes is hot liquid, which
coincidentally we already have.
Taste your liquid, and if it needs
more seasoning, adjust it. I found
mine needed extra everything:
herbs, salt, pepper and even a little
more butter.
Step 4: Dump in couscous in a
1:1 ratio with the liquid. I just
eyeballed it, but be careful not to
put in more couscous than liquid
or it'll end up crunchy. Put the
couscous-filled carafe back on the
burner and let it sit for about five
minutes or until the liquid's all
absorbed.
Step 5: Finally, plate it up and
serve with wine. I selected a
Cabernet Sauvignon from the
esteemed Charles Shaw (2008, an
excellent year) to pair with the
dish. It didn't seem to complement
the chicken until I'd drunk three-
quarters of the bottle; at that point,
it was delicious. Such is the
subtlety of this particular bottle, I
suppose. If you've got more than
$2 to spend on wine, a Chardonnay
might be the more obvious choice.
Glory shot. If I'd had any, I'd
have steamed some asparagus in
the basket where the coffee usually
goes. (To steam veggies, you just
talks to suspects with a modicum
of respect, but a healthy cynicism.
He's seen it all and knows the truth
is in there somewhere. He asks
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run water through the machine a
few times.) I could have then
layered it with the chicken and
couscous for some color, but one
can't be too picky.
The Results: Well, it tasted like
poached chicken breast. That's
pretty much the most boring way
to prepare the most boring cut of
any animal I can think of, but the
coffee maker did a perfectly fine
job of it. The chicken was moist
and the texture was about right,
and it is an incredibly easy way to
make a meal. I could see this
recipe being useful if you're stuck
in a hotel room somewhere—and
just happen to have a raw chicken
breast on you.
Tomorrow's MacGyver Chef
recipe will be an urban-legend
favorite: Fish steamed in the
dishwasher. Stay tuned.
Taste Test is our weeklong
tribute to the leaps that occur when
technology meets cuisine,
spanning everything from the
historic breakthroughs that made
food tastier and safer to the Earl-
Grey-friendly replicators we
impatiently await in the future.
questions and waits for them to
trip themselves up. When they do,
he has them write it down. Despite
the laconic attitude, Brass has the
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Chipotle iPhone App's
Super Convenient
Burritos Are Going to
Make Us So, So Fat
[IPhone Apps]
By matt buchanan (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 8/25/2009 4:59:00 PM
You can delete every other fast
food app on your iPhone now.
Chipotle's new app sets the
standard for deliciously unhealthy
fast food convenience. Like
seriously.
The design is top notch. After it
locates the nearest Chipotle, you
can build your taco, burrito, bowl
or salad exactly how you want it,
easily adding in whatever fillings
you want, plus sides and drink.
You can even include special
instructions, like "easy on the
beans" before you check out. It's
fast and pretty. And yes, it
brass to get the job done.
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synchronizes and saves your order,
so you can get your favorite gut-
busting burrito every single day
without going through the process
of re-building it every single time.
Every food ordering app needs to
be this good. Or, you know, maybe
not. Chipotle Ordering Application
Now Available on the Apple App
Store
Burritos on the go: Locate, Order
and Pay Using iPhone and iPod
touch
DENVER – August 25, 2009 –
Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE:
CMG and CMG.B) today
announced its new ordering
application is available on the
Apple App Store. The mobile
ordering app gives iPhone and
iPod touch users the ability to
create their favorite Chipotle order,
place it at the Chipotle location of
their choice, and also pay for their
food direct from their device.
"The breakthrough iPhone and
iPod touch have really given us the
ability to deliver a compelling
experience to customers which
includes simplicity, personality
and attention to detail," said Steve
Ells, founder, chairman and co-
CEO of Chipotle. "We are
changing the way the world thinks
about and eats fast food, and the
iPhone and iPod touch give us
powerful new ways to engage and
serve our customers. While we
have always made our high quality
food affordable and accessible so
everyone can eat better, we've
probably never been this
accessible."
Chipotle's time-saving app is
being released in conjunction with
a newly updated web-based
ordering system, available on
www.chipotle.com. Customers can
place orders through a secure
credit card payment capability that
allows users to save their
information for quick repeat orders
and an expanded group ordering
feature that allows customers to
place multi-item orders under a
single name. The app also allows
customers to save their favorite
Chipotle meals online, as well as
those of friends, family, or co-
workers. Using location-based
technologies customers can also
quickly find the nearest Chipotle.
The Chipotle app is available for
free from Apple's App Store on
iPhone and iPod touch or at
www.itunes.com/appstore/
The app was developed by
Pervasent, a Berkeley, Calif. firm
that develops mobile applications,
and Chipotle's internal IT team and
designed by San Francisco-based
Sequence.
About Chipotle
Steve Ells, founder, chairman
and co-CEO, started Chipotle with
the idea that food served fast did
not have to be a typical fast food
experience. Today, Chipotle
continues to offer a focused menu
of burritos, tacos, burrito bowls (a
burrito without the tortilla) and
salads made from fresh, high-
quality raw ingredients, prepared
using classic cooking methods and
served in a distinctive atmosphere.
Through our vision of Food with
Integrity, Chipotle is seeking better
food not only from using fresh
ingredients, but ingredients that are
sustainably grown and naturally
raised with respect for the animals,
the land, and the farmers who
produce the food. Chipotle opened
its first restaurant in 1993 and
currently operates more than 860
restaurants. For more information,
visit chipotle.com.
[ iTunes]
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Rumor: Best Buy offering
new PS3 buyers a free game
to discourage Slim trade-ins
By JC Fletcher (Joystiq) monolithic console? If you are in
Submitted at 8/26/2009 10:15:00 AM the position of having just bought
a PS3, do let us know if this sends
In order to dissuade recent PS3 you scrambling back to Best Buy
buyers from returning their in search of some kind of better
systems in exchange for newer, buy.
slimmer ones, Best Buy is And if you're a high-level Sony
reportedly offering a free game to executive, don't (try to) hide your
customers who come in for such i m m e d i a t e p l a n s f r o m y o u r
an exchange. consumers. As it turns out, people
According to our tipster, who like being informed about the
snapped the picture above ( things they're planning to buy.
Kotaku also claims to have Nobody would have bought a PS3
verified the story), Best Buy sent in the last couple of weeks if we
out an internal memo instructing had known about the Slim, and
employees to try to convince there wouldn't be any emergency
customers not to return their recent programs like this as a result of it.
purchases for Slims with the offer Gallery: PlayStation 3 Slim
of a free copy of either inFamous, Rumor: Best Buy offering new
Killzone 2, or MLB 09. The memo P S 3 b u y e r s a f r e e g a m e t o
also states that there is no official d i s c o u r a g e S l i m t r a d e - i n s
"street date" for the system, so it originally appeared on Joystiq on
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Intel Next-Gen Mobile Platforms Make Windows
7 Launch an Awesome Time to Buy a Laptop
[Notebooks]
By Joanna Stern (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 8/25/2009 5:20:00 PM
Windows 7's launch is going to
be a hell of a busy time for laptops.
Expect a slew of higher-end Intel
Core i7 mobile rigs and thin
notebooks powered by new dual-
core ULV processors when the OS
ships.
Intel's next generation Centrino
platform, codenamed Calpella, will
be launched at the end of
September, says MSI. That means
speedy new notebooks with
Nehalem based mobile CPUs and
chipsets will be arriving just in
time to put Windows 7 on the hard
drive.
MSI will ship 15.4 and 17-inch
notebooks powered by Intel's new
Core i7 7200M, Core i7 8200M,
and Core i7 920XM with Windows
7. The Clarksfield CPU of the
mobile Core i7 platform is
expected to be a downscaled
version of the desktop version we
like so much, but will be one of the
biggest jumps in laptop power we
have seen in awhile. Intel's mobile
Peter Moore asks for transparency in marketing, doesn't mind being called
ugly
By Ben Gilbert (Joystiq)
Submitted at 8/26/2009 6:00:00 AM
"We're never not interacting with
our community," Peter Moore
recently claimed at the Edinburgh
Interactive Festival, MCV UK
reports. Apparently the EA Sports
prez was advocating the need for
more community engagement and
Core i5 and i3 (codenamed
Arrandale) are not planned until
the first quarter of 2010.
Also coming from Intel around
the same time (our guess this is all
coming at September's Intel
Developers Conference) are new
dual core ULV processors. Intel's
ULV (once called CULV) is aimed
at ultra thin laptops (those right in
between netbooks and
mainstreamers, like the Acer
Timeline). MSI plans to use the
developer transparency in the
gaming industry, saying, "We
needed to get away from the 'dark
science' days of making games,
when we'd just lob the consumer a
screenshot on the odd afternoon."
It's reported that he also argued
for early and frequent marketing t h e n e c e s s i t y f o r s u s t a i n e d
for games, adding that some e n g a g e m e n t . H e p o s i t s t h a t
publishers still don't understand
new Core 2 Duo SU4100 and
SU7300 chips in its X420 (update
to X400) and X620 (an update to
the X600) which will ship with
Windows 7.
Why do we care? MSI tells us
the price of these seriously slim
notebooks will stay in the same
ballpark (around $600 to $900),
but the chips provide better
performance than the Celerons that
they were formerly using.
What this all really means is that
Gizmos/ Tech Games/
not only is MSI hitting the market
with a crap load of notebooks that
have brand spankin' new chips and
a fresh Microsoft OS, but the other
notebook vendors (yes, Apple) will
most likely do the same. You may
just want to wait to snatch up a
new PC; the notebooks are a
coming this fall.
community interaction and
openness is key, though Moore
admits he's had to develop a "thick
skin" due to some forumgoers on
the EA Sports blogs calling him
"ugly." Aww, sorry Peter. We still
love ya, buddy!
Peter Moore asks for
transparency in marketing, doesn't
mind being called ugly originally
51
Tradewest Games
hints at upcoming
IP lineup reveal
By Ben Gilbert (Joystiq)
Submitted at 8/26/2009 1:00:00 AM
Martin Spiess has been busy the
past few months, between
raising€1 to buy Midway UK and
France and resurrecting the long
gone Tradewest Games moniker.
The ex-Midway exec's acquisition
of the two company branches went
light on the details in the SEC
filing, leaving us with a handful of
questions for the recently re-
branded company.
We contacted Tradewest to find
out exactly what the acquisition
means for the future of the
company, in terms of assets
gained. "We`ve got a portfolio of
[our] own IPs and will announce
highlights from our line-up over
the next weeks," a representative
told Joystiq. And what does it
mean when the filing says Mr.
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Gamersyde told Beyond PlayOn video streaming beta
Good and Evil 2 is 'on hold' playing
By JC Fletcher (Joystiq)
- Ubisoft won't comment
By Alexander Sliwinski
(Joystiq)
Submitted at 8/26/2009 9:29:00 AM
Bad news for you Jade and Uncle
Pey'J fans out there: Gamersyde
was apparently told last week at
GamesCom that Beyond Good and
Evil 2 is currently in the freezer
with no thaw date. Staff writer
Colin Solal Cardo tweeted that he
received "confirmation" from
Ubisoft that the title was "on hold
for now." Joystiq's attempts to
receive comment from Ubisoft
have been met by either silence or
a statement that the company will
not comment on "rumors and
speculation." Well, if no one at
Ubisoft told Mr. Cardo that the
game was "on hold for now" then
why not say as much?
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Steam offers Ben There,
Dan That and Time
Gentlemen, Please!
bundle
By David Hinkle (Joystiq)
Submitted at 8/26/2009 4:00:00 AM
Frequent listeners to the Joystiq
Podcast know that we have
nothing but love for Ben There,
Dan That and Time Gentlemen,
on Wii now
and the duration of the trial
Please!. Heck, we dig the games so
much, we even managed to group
some words together on them for
Submitted at 8/26/2009 2:00:00 AM decreased, since last year. $40 is
kind of a lot, but not when
our website here. Long story short:
They're great games, and if you
Ubisoft's noncommittal MediaMall Technologies has compared to the cost of an Xbox haven't checked them out yet,
aloofness doesn't end there: a opened up a beta of the Wii 360 or another Netflix-capable consider this post the shot in the
couple months ago the company's version of its PlayOn streaming device. Unless it turns out not to arm you desperately need.
North American president didn't media software, already available work well -- which many of us are Now, if you're a Steam user,
seem to recognize a sequel was in for PS3, Xbox 360 and other n o d o u b t o n o u r w a y t o know the two games are available
production; Ubisoft has yet to devices. Basically, that means that d e t e r m i n i n g r i g h t n o w . in one bundle for the low price of
simply confirm active production you should be able to download [Via Engadget] $4.99 (the same as the official
of the game it chose to close out its the PC software and then use the PlayOn video streaming beta site). Can we expect Ben and
Ubidays 2008 event with. So, Internet Channel to watch Netflix, playing on Wii now originally Dan's episodic adventures to
Ubisoft gets fans riled up and now Hulu, YouTube and other content appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 26 continue on Steam, as well?
won't even offer a simple update on your TV. Aug 2009 02:00:00 EST. Please Probably.
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and Evil 2 is 'on hold' - Ubisoft by the way, we couldn't help but Joystiq on Wed, 26 Aug 2009
w o n ' t c o m m e n t o r i g i n a l l y notice that the price has increased, 04:00:00 EST. Please see our
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TRADEWEST
continued from page 51
Spiess has acquired the UK and
France offices, specifically? "This
includes all of the companies
assets ... that also means that
Tradewest has direct access to two
of Europe´s biggest markets for
games products." Unfortunately,
the rep couldn't tell us much more
at the moment.
And yes, we're still keeping our
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fingers crossed for Battletoads.
Tradewest Games hints at
upcoming IP lineup reveal
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Once again: Do cell phones cause brain tumors?

(CNET News.com) supported by industry are based on exposure to the RF fields from
Submitted at 8/26/2009 7:12:00 AM the false premise that EMR has no mobile phones or their base
biological effects except for stations causes any adverse health
A widely endorsed report calls heating; and design flaws of the consequence." But this statement--
into question the methodologies of I n t e r p h o n e s t u d y i n c l u d i n g last updated nine years ago--relies
studies that show no link between selection bias, insufficient latency on precisely the kind of data these
c e l l p h o n e u s e a n d b r a i n time to expect a tumor diagnosis, watchdogs suggest is flawed.
tumors.(Credit: L. Lloyd Morgan, unrealistic definition of what Several other studies, many of
et al) makes a "regular" cell phone user, which are referenced in the
A collaborative of international exclusion of children and young book"Cancer Biology," including
electromagnetic radiation ( EMR) adults from the study, exclusion of one of 195,775 workers
watchdogs, including Powerwatch many types of brain tumors, and manufacturing and testing cell
and the EMR Policy Institute, sent exclusion of people who had died phones, indicate no association
a paper to government leaders and or were too ill to be interviewed as between EMR exposure and brain
media Tuesday detailing several the result of brain tumors. or other nervous system cancers.
design flaws in a major but oft- Read the full report here (PDF), But again, this book was published
d e l a y e d t e l e c o m - f u n d e d as well as CNET's cell phone in 1995; time for an update?
Interphone study. radiation level chart(a few Yesterday's announcement also
Now consumers get to wonder Motorola models top the list, with calls into question the wide use of
yet again whether the message several Samsungs coming in wireless technologies beyond cell
behind the paper,"Cellphones and lowest). phones. If GSM cell phones are
Brain Tumors: 15 Reasons for The paper's primary author, L. dangerous in the 1.8GHz band,
Concern, Science, Spin and the L l o y d M o r g a n ( a r e t i r e d Exposure to cell phone radiation salivary gland tumors, testicular does that render Wi-Fi, at 2.4GHz
Truth Behind Interphone," is electronics engineer and member is the largest human health cancer, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and 5GHz frequency bands, even
legitimate or the result of of the Bioelectromagnetics experiment ever undertaken, and leukemia. The public must be worse? These are questions that
overzealous conspiracy theorists. Society), is backed by endorsers without informed consent, and has informed. need to be addressed, preferably
The paper's main conclusions ( m o s t l y s c i e n t i s t s ) f r o m 1 4 some four billion participants The World Health Organization by researchers who do not receive
are: There is a "significant" risk of countries when he cautions that enrolled. Science has shown does not seem terribly worried their funding from the
brain tumors from cell phone use; cell phone use might lead to an increased risk of brain tumors from about the effects of cell phone use telecommunications industry.
EMR exposure limits that have increased risk of more than just use of cell phones, as well as on health: "None of the recent
been used by governments and brain tumors: increased risk of eye cancer, reviews have concluded that
54 TechNews/ Internet News Record

Sony's PS3 losses may pay off

(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 8/26/2009 5:00:00 AM

The PS3 Slim is part of the right

strategy.(Credit: Sony)
With Sony's PlayStation 3
trailing so far behind Microsoft's
Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii, it
was only a matter of time before
the company that had offered the
most expensive console on the
market would reduce the price of
its hardware.
But by doing so, Sony has
ensured that going forward, it will
take a loss on every console it
sells. That was confirmed by Sony
Computer Entertainment chief Kaz
Hirai in a recent interview with the
Times Online.
"If you're just talking about the
hardware alone, the quick answer just one console, they needed to doesn't have, like a Blu-ray player, has been able to sell a slew of add- in the space. And as more
is yes," Hirai said in response to a choose among the $250 Wii, the free online multiplayer gaming, ons, including a steering wheel for consumers opt for the PlayStation
question asking if Sony is losing $300 Xbox 360 Pro, or the $400 and built-in Wi-Fi. Mario Kart Wii, gun attachments 3 over its competitors, it could put
money on each console sold. "That PlayStation 3. They chose the And yet the PlayStation 3 is a for first-person shooters, and more. Sony in a position to capture a
makes good headlines, but I don't cheaper alternatives. victim of its feature set. All those Neither console boasts a Blu-ray larger share of the market,
actually know that that's the true Sony's console is no longer the extras add to the cost of its player. considering what it makes on
nature of the business that we're all most expensive console on the console. It's why at $400, the The consumer wins, when we royalties and licensing fees from
in, whether it's PlayStation, Xbox, market; Microsoft's Xbox 360 company couldn't profit off a consider the PlayStation 3's value third-party developers and
or the Wii." Elite now holds that crown, with a single console. It's also why it's proposition. Sony loses, from a per hardware makers.
There's little debate that Sony's $400 price tag, though even that still facing losses with each sale of -unit profit perspective. But in the As bad as the losses may be,
decision to cut the price of the could be slipping, with very nearly its cheaper hardware. long run, the price reduction might capturing more market share is
PlayStation 3 to $299 and offer the confirmed price cuts coming next Microsoft and Nintendo force help Sony. Sony's goal for the foreseeable
PS3 Slim at the same price is week that could drop the price of gamers to invest in accessories to As ideal as it might have been to future. That wouldn't have been
surprising. The price cut will the Elite to $299 and the Pro to achieve the same level of usability. turn a profit on every sold console, possible if the PS3 wasn't so
undoubtedly hurt profit margins. $249. Xbox 360 owners need to buy a Sony's decision to reduce the price affordable.
But it was a smart move. Regardless, Sony should enjoy $50-per-year subscription to Xbox of the PlayStation 3 and offer a Check out Don's Facebook
The store shelf battle better sales, now that it's in that Live just to play games online. Wii new console version was smart. It profile, Twitter stream, and
Having a higher console price same pricing sweet spot. That will owners might be able to play makes the company's consoles FriendFeed.
than the competition hurt Sony at be especially true when consumers online for free, but thanks to the more affordable. It ensures that it
retail. When consumers went to consider features the Xbox 360 uniqueness of its games, Nintendo provides the best value proposition
the store with enough cash to buy
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UK Gov't Now Supporting 3 Strikes:
Lobbyists Win Again
By Michael Masnick (Techdirt) the UK gov't "Digital Britain"
Submitted at 8/25/2009 11:00:09 AM report clearly said that a three
strikes regime, whereby ISPs
Ah, those pesky lobbyists. It would be responsible for kicking
seems that the UK gov't really has file sharers offline, didn't make
a way with doing a detailed report sense. While there were other
on what should be done on the problems with the report, at least it
music industry, which gets some knew better than to drag ISPs into
of the important points right... and things as copyright cops.
then it all gets tossed out the But... then the lobbyists took
w i n d o w o n c e t h e r e c o r d i n g over. Entertainment industry
industry lobbyists jump into lobbyists have been working
things. Remember a few years overtime in the UK (the stories
back when the gov't commissioned we've been hearing are pretty
the Gowers Report, which said nuts...), and a few weeks ago the
copyright terms should not be British press was noting that UK
extended(and Gowers himself later B u s i n e s s S e c r e t a r y P e t e r
admitted that all of the evidence Mandelson had vacationed with
actually suggests it should be David Geffen (who has ties to both
shortened)? Yup, well, then the the recording and the movie
lobbyists took over, and suddenly industries) and suddenly showed
t h e g o v e r n m e n t ' s C u l t u r a l an immense interest that hadn't
Secretary Andy Burnham is been there before, on changing
singing the praises of copyright Digital Britain to make the rules
extension. These days, it looks like tougher.
extension is almost certainly going So, surprise, surprise... suddenly
to happen in the UK despite all the ISPs are finding out that three
evidence as to why it shouldn't. strikes is back on the table even
Looks like the same thing is after being promised it wouldn't
happening again. Earlier this year, be. The original report had given
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The Myth Behind Craigslist:
It's Not Maximizing
Revenue Potential
By Michael Masnick (Techdirt) paradoxical, Craigslist actually is
Submitted at 8/25/2009 1:25:00 PM being much smarter(on purpose or
not) in how it "maximizes profits."
We pointed this out a few years It's doing it by not pissing off users
back, but there's this persistent and not trying to squeeze them for
myth behind Craigslist that every possible penny today,
reporters love to repeat, and it's knowing correctly that doing so is
just not true. The latest is that it a horrible long-term strategy. But
shows up in an otherwise excellent it's difficult to think of many
regulators until 2012 to consider profile of Craigslist by Gary Wolf companies that throw off the sort
what technical measures ISPs in the latest Wired Magazine. The of profits that Craigslist does on a
s h o u l d t a k e - - i f a n y . B u t whole article really is worth regular basis. It employs 30 people
Mandelson's department has reading, though Craig plays up the and most estimates suggest in
suddenly declared that timeframe whole Forrest Gump of the internet brings in $100 million in revenue
is "too long." The minister for schtick a bit more than is fair. per year. What other companies of
Digital Britain, Stephen Timms, However, the article again quotes that size bring in that much in
practically comes out and admits CEO Jim Buckmaster supposedly revenue?
that they were lobbied hard:"We've brushing off concerns about Then look at all the companies
b e e n l i s t e n i n g c a r e f u l l y t o maximizing revenue:"Companies that claim they are trying to
responses to the consultation this looking to maximize revenue need maximize profits. And compare. I
far, and it's become clear there are t o t h r o w a s m a n y r e v e n u e - can't see how anyone can take the
widespread concerns that the plans generating opportunities at users as claim that Craigslist isn't doing
as they stand could delay action, t h e y w i l l t o l e r a t e . " B u t that with a straight face. The
impacting unfairly upon rights Buckmaster's very next claim company knows more about
holders." So, expect three strikes belies the fact that he knows the maximizing revenue than probably
to show up in the UK. Of course, it first half isn't really true:"We have e v e r y c e l e b r i t y C E O o r
will be a dreadful mistake. I still absolutely no interest in doing that, management consultant out there.
can't understand why the recording w h i c h I t h i n k h a s b e e n Permalink| Comments| Email
industry thinks this is a good idea. instrumental to the success of This Story
You may kick people off the craigslist." And, that, really is the
internet, but does anyone honestly p o i n t . W h i l e i t m a y s e e m
think that will actually get people
to buy again? It seems like a
strategy designed to piss more
people off. And when has that ever
been good for business?
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This Story
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Better Place to test electric taxis in Keeping your boat's

Japan
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 8/26/2009 6:08:00 AM
Better Place will test its battery-
swapping service with electric cars
used as taxis in Tokyo.
The project, funded by Japanese
government agencies, will use as
many as four cars converted to run
on batteries. The taxis will be able
to swap in fresh batteries at an
existing station in Tokyo.
A test at Better Place's
automated battery-swapping
station in Japan earlier this
year.(Credit: Better Place)
Better Place is developing a
service that will allow drivers to
charge electric car batteries and to
change out batteries at a network
of swapping stations. It has signed
partnerships to develop a number
of networks, with the first
expected in Israel.
The trial in Tokyo, scheduled to
begin in January, will gather data
on driving range and battery
durability under urban driving
conditions.
Better Place said Wednesday it
hopes to the trial will lead to other
battery-changing stations in cities.
bottom shipshape
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 8/26/2009 6:00:00 AM
The U.S. Navy may have
developed a solution to hull-
dwelling barnacles and slime--a
"foul" problem that has plagued
sailors and their ships since Noah
launched the ark.
The Office of Naval Research
(ONR) has developed what looks
like a combination pressure
washer/minisub called the Hull
Bio-inspired Underwater
Grooming, or Hull BUG. It's
designed to prevent or suppress the
growth and build-up of nuisance
marine growths such as barnacles--
also known as biofouling ( PDF).
"This puts the Better Place battery have a dedicated electrical outlet This could be a major
switch system to use in a real- outdoors, charging electric cars in breakthrough. High-performance
world application involving heavy- urban areas can be challenging warships and submarines rely on a
use vehicles that drive much more without public charging stations or clean hull for speedy acceleration
than the average passenger car," battery-changing stations. and hydroacoustic stealth--things
Kiyotaka Fujii, president of Better Earlier this year, Better Place that crustaceans easily impede.
Place Japan, said in a statement. successfully tested an automated Enter the Hull BUG. It's an
All-electric cars will generally car-changing station in Yokohama, autonomous, tether-free vehicle
have a shorter range than gasoline Japan, where a car drives up a similar to an advanced pool
cars--Nissan's Leaf and Coda ramp and a machine pulls out a cleaner. It uses four wheels and a
Automotive's sedan are expected depleted battery, then slides in a
to have a roughly 100-mile range. fresh one.
But since many city dwellers don't
negative pressure Vortex
Regenerative Fluid Movement
assembly to attach itself to the
hull, where it deploys a variety of
"grooming" tools, including rotary
brushes and specialized water jets
to groom and maintain ship hull
surfaces.
It carries a suite of onboard
sensors to provide obstacle
avoidance, path planning, and
navigation capabilities that include
detection of fouled and groomed
surfaces, according to ONR. Add
weapons, and you also have a
"force protection" vehicle.
Biofouling can reduce a vessel
speeds by 10 percent and add 40
percent in increased fuel
consumption in order to
compensate for the added drag. In
fact, biofouling on ships translates
into roughly $500 million in extra
fuel and maintenance costs
annually, according to the Naval
Surface Warfare Center's
Carderock Division.

Taxi Owner Copies Innovative Business Model Of Free Shuttles He

Just Forced To Shut Down
By Michael Masnick (Techdirt)
Submitted at 8/25/2009 2:40:00 PM
Earlier this year, we wrote about
how some of the taxi companies in
Tampa, Florida were upset about
free competition. Some smart
business folks had setup local
transportation options, that
subsisted on advertising and tips,
rather than fares, and thus were
able to avoid having to buy a (sold
out) taxi cab license. But, of
course, the existing cabbies
freaked out and complained, and
convinced the city council to
declare that the free cabs had to
buy licenses as well... while
conveniently noting that none are
available. Basically, the cab
drivers got the city council to drive
this competition out of town.
But, now there's a bit of a twist.
A bunch of folks have sent in the
news that one of the guys who
pushed the city council the hardest
has now suddenly set up his own
free shuttle offering in place of the the government to drive your
competition that was run out of competitors out of town, and then
town. He makes no qualms about copy their best ideas.
the fact that he's copying the idea Permalink| Comments| Email
of the shuttles he just knocked out This Story
of business, saying they had a
good idea -- he just didn't like the
fact that they didn't have to buy a
taxi license. Neat trick, huh? Get
Internet News Record
Doctor Who Uploaded A fix for wind turbine
Rorschach Images Now outlay
(CNET News.com)
Being Investigated Submitted at 8/26/2009 6:38:00 AM
By Michael Masnick (Techdirt) investigated by his local doctors' Helix Wind's Helix S322 vertical
Submitted at 8/25/2009 12:12:00 PM organization for "unprofessional" wind turbine is designed for users
actions. The complaints against in crowded urban spaces.(Credit:
A few weeks back, we wrote him are equally ridiculous. They Helix Wind)
about the argument over whether s a y t h a t t h i s i s " s e r i o u s
While wind turbines might save
or not it was okay that a doctor had misconduct" because he "shows money on power in the long-term,
uploaded the public domain(and disrespect to his professional the initial outlay for buying and
available in pretty much any colleagues in psychology and installing a wind turbine is
library) original Rorschach ink disparages them in the eye of the
probably prohibitive to most
blots to Wikipedia. The whole public." homeowners even if they live in a
thing was perfectly legal and So apparently no doctor is ever state that offers generous rebates.
reasonable in the view of many. allowed to question any methods Helix Wind makes relatively
But some strong believers in the used by psychologists? Yikes. Talk small vertical-axis wind turbines
ink blots seem to think that even about a chilling effect.
that can generate electricity with
though the images are in the public Even more to the point, I fail to winds as low as 10 mph. They're
domain, they have some sort of see how sharing public domain the sort of small-scale wind
right over them. The thinking, on knowledge with the world can be turbines that could be ideal for
their part, is that keeping the ink unprofessional or an ethical residential and small commercial
blots secret protects the integrity of breach. It seems like the exact
property owners looking for
the test -- which totally ignores the opposite. I would think it's a hell microgeneration options.
fact that these ink blots are already of a lot more unethical to trump up But it may be a simple classic
widely available (and the fact that b o g u s e t h i c s c h a r g e s a n d business model that helps
it seems rather unlikely that all that investigations against the doctor interested parties fund this new
many people are going to "study who actually put that content on
technology for harnessing the
up" for their Rorschach tests. Wikipedia. wind.
But, it hasn't stopped a witch Permalink| Comments| Email Helix Wind has partnered with
hunt against the guy who uploaded This Story Atoll Financial Group, a financial
the images. Apparently, he's being services company based out of
Washington, D.C., to offer loans
for its small wind turbines. It's
similar to how some car
manufacturers have a financing
arm to offer loans for their cars, or
how a furniture store might offer
financing for a dining room set.
"We are excited to be the only
small wind company to offer
individuals and small businesses
financing for small wind turbines,
which can make purchasing
renewable energy much more
accessible to consumers," Helix
Wind CEO Ian Gardner said in a
statement.
In addition to assisting personal
owners and businesses, the plan
will include financing to enable
distributors to carry more
inventory thereby decreasing the
current time it takes to meet
customer orders, according to
Helix Wind.
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USC Trojans QB
Aaron Corp sharp
in return to practice
By ESPN.com news services
(ESPN.com)
Submitted at 8/26/2009 6:03:09 AM
USC quarterback Aaron Corp on
Tuesday looked ready to play in
the Trojans' opener Sept. 5.
Corp returned to practice and
split time with freshman Matt
Barkley running the No. 1 offense.
Corp had not gone through a full
practice since cracking his fibula
Aug. 11.
"I can do everything right now
that playing quarterback at USC
[requires] me to do," Corp said
after practice, according to the Los
Angeles Times. "I feel good and
it's only going to get better."
Corp, a junior, was No. 1 on the
depth chart entering training camp.
Wearing a bulky brace, which he
says restricts his movement
somewhat, Corp was able to plant,
drop back, shift -- everything he
did before the injury.
After observing Corp in practice,
USC coach Pete Carroll called the
QB's comeback "remarkable."
Carroll said he does not have a
time frame in mind for naming a
No. 1 quarterback for the Trojans'
season opener against San Jose
State, but that the next three
practices and Saturday's
scrimmage at the Los Angeles
Coliseum are crucial to making the
selection.
"He'll get a chance all the way to
Saturday to show where he sits,"
Carroll said of Corp. "That's a very
important opportunity for him to
show his stuff."
Information from ESPN's
Shelley Smith was used in this
report.
58 TechNews/ Sports/
Give Away Free Food, Increase
Revenue 300% -- And Also
Build A Stronger Community
By Michael Masnick (Techdirt)
Submitted at 8/25/2009 4:14:04 PM
This year, it seems, there's been a
big trend for restaurants to
experiment with free food
promotions. While I've been a bit
skeptical about some of them, they
do seem to be working wonders.
David sends in yet another story of
free food doing quite well for a
restaurant. In this case, it's a pair
of restaurants in Texas that are
offering free entrees on Mondays.
It's not all entrees, but apparently
it's a pretty decent selection.
Diners are still required to pay for
any other food (appetizers,
desserts, drinks, etc.) and (of
course) tip. Apparently the
promotion is doing amazingly well
-- increasing the revenue on
Mondays by 300%. While the
profit margin is obviously down a
bit due to the food giveaway, it's
not that bad. The giveaway stuff
was the lower margin items -- the
Michael Vick to make preseason
debut for Philadelphia Eagles on
Thursday
By Associated Press
(ESPN.com)
Submitted at 8/25/2009 6:05:35 PM
Vick Will Make Eagles Debut On
Thursday Vick Will Make Eagles
Debut On Thursday
PHILADELPHIA -- Michael
paid food is higher margin. Plus,
the restaurant is actually saving a Vick has looked sharp zipping
lot of money because it killed its u n c o n t e s t e d p a s s e s t o o p e n
marketing budget, recognizing that receivers and racing past defenders
this acts as a better promotion. who aren't allowed to touch him in
But, perhaps the most interesting practice.
phenomenon of all is that the Now he'll see what it's like to
restaurant has really used this "free face 11 guys going after him again.
Mondays" to better "connect with The Herd with Colin Cowherd
fans." Apparently, there's now a Herman Edwards says the
group of regulars, and it makes the biggest thing for Michael Vick is
overall restaurant feel more like a to act appropriately off the field.
family gathering -- as patrons keep Herm likes how Mark Sanchez
coming back, saying that "It makes was able to come back after
it feel like it's a neighborhood making a mistake.
restaurant." Those same people are More Podcasts »
coming during other days as well, Vick will make his Eagles debut
now that they feel so comfortable i n a p r e s e a s o n g a m e i n
at the restaurant, so it appears that Philadelphia on Thursday night.
it helps boost revenue on other T h e t h r e e - t i m e P r o B o w l
days. Once again, when used quarterback hasn't played in an
properly, free absolutely makes NFL game since Dec. 31, 2006,
sense as a part of a larger business with the Atlanta Falcons-- against
model. the Eagles on the same field.
Permalink| Comments| Email "I can only go off what I've seen
This Story in practice and it looks like he's
moving around pretty good,"
Eagles coach Andy Reid said.
"Realistically, it's been two years.
We'll see how it works out. We'll
give him a couple shots in there
and see what he can do."
Vick was released from federal
custody July 20 after serving 18
months of a 23-month sentence for
his role in running a dogfighting
operation. He signed a one-year,
$1.6 million contract with the
Eagles, who hold a $5.2 million
option for a second season.
Vick is due to appear at a
bankruptcy court hearing in
Newport News, Va., on Thursday
morning and will fly back to
Philadelphia for the game against
the Jaguars.
"He'll be here for the game," Reid
said.
NFC East blog
ESPN.com's Matt Mosley writes
about all things NFC East in his
division blog.
• Blog network: NFL Nation
Reid isn't saying how much Vick
will play. Donovan McNabb and
the rest of the starters are slated to
go three quarters, and Reid said
Vick won't play in the fourth
quarter. Backup Kevin Kolb, who
missed the first two preseason
games with a knee injury, will play
the final quarter.
That means Vick could spell
McNabb and be on the field with
the first-team offense. It's also
likely he could be used in a
variation of the Wildcat formation.
Reid said he's not concerned about
showing off such packages in a
preseason game.
"I'm just going to take it play by
play and see how he adjusts to
game speed," Reid said. "If I think
that's a problem, I'll probably
discontinue the reps. If I feel he's
adjusting OK, I'll continue to give
him an opportunity here and
there."
Vick is eligible to play the final
two preseason games, but not in
the regular season. NFL
commissioner Roger Goodell said
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he would consider Vick for full
reinstatement by no later than
Week 6 (Oct. 18-19).
"He wants to get in. He's set this
as a goal, as did we," Reid said.
"You see him out there
conditioning after practice. He's
conditioning before practice. He's
excited to get out there. I'm sure
he'll have a couple butterflies with
it being a couple years since he's
been in, but he's excited to get
back doing what he does."
Reid is pleased with the way
Vick has handled himself off the
field, too.
"I think he's doing a good job.
He's working at it," Reid said. "I
think he's heading in the right
direction. I think it's good that he's
able to be around the team. We
have some guys that can be a good
influence for him and kind of take
him under their wing."
While most of the attention will
be on Vick, star running back
Brian Westbrook also is set to see
his first action of the preseason.
Westbrook had surgery to remove
scar tissue and bone fragments
from his right ankle in June. He
also had his left knee cleaned out
shortly after the Eagles lost to
Arizona in the NFC championship
game last January.
The Eagles will be missing four
starters: Cornerback Sheldon
Brown(ribs), fullback Leonard
Weaver(knee), right tackle Shawn
Andrews(back) and left guard
Todd Herremans(foot).
Copyright 2009 by The
Associated Press
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Beasley’s Painful Week Plays Out in Public

(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix) writes. “For all I know, twenty The Little League World Series the flights of poetic fancy the new,
Submitted at 8/25/2009 9:11:11 AM years ago, dozens of players is an American institution, if not open-air stadium inspired in
checked in and out of rehab necessarily an uncomplicated one. Aschburner.
He was a brilliant prep basketball without mention in the paper. But In the Washington Post, Sally “How much is a blue sky worth?”
player who dominated Division I in 2009, it’s a different story, and Jenkins examines the annual Aschburner rhapsodizes. “How
hoops during his sole season at this new world of information spectacle in Williamsport, Penn. much would you pay to look up
Kansas State. He’s 20 years old comes with its own challenges.” She finds a turbo-charged version and see the sun, a plane, even a
and 6-foot-9 and blessed with At the blog Free Darko, of the complicated and sometimes blimp on special days, after being
nearly limitless talent and a lively Bethlehem Shoals provides both creepy spectacle of misplaced cooped up all week in an office, a
sense of humor. For all those some much-needed context on she is, genetically, a woman. (You priorities that can be found on classroom, a warehouse? How
reasons Michael Beasley seemed Beasley’s tweets and some broader may even have read about it in Little League diamonds across the much — after being indoors from
pretty irreversibly on track for perspective. “If this is intended to Garey’s Fix from last week.) It’s country. Even for those of us with November into April year after
what most would imagine as an get Beasley help in earnest, the t h e s o r t o f s t o r y t h a t ’ s fond memories of our baseball- year because of where you live and
easy and ideal life. Beasley’s strategy seems awfully sloppy,” exceptionally hard to cover and playing youth, it’s hard to argue then indoors again from April into
terrible last few days don’t make Shoals writes. “ If [Beasley's] write about — the squeamish- that Jenkins doesn’t have a point October because of where your
that future notably less likely, but loopiness points to anything making dimensions of it are both about the central strangeness of the favorite team plays — to breathe
t h i n g s a r e c e r t a i n l y m o r e deeper, wouldn’t it make more obvious and potent, and the story event. deep at the crack of the bat, to feel
complicated now. Associated Press sense to first just have him talk to defies the usual blame/defend “You’ll see pre-adolescents throw the sun’s warmth or savor the
Miami’s Michael Beasley became a doctor? Oh, I forgot: Whenever a binary that defines most sports upward of 200 pitches on short moon’s glow, to swear you can
this week’s example of how famous person is unwell, or might columns. rest, contrary to all medical even smell the grass?”* * *
athletes’ secrets are harder to keep. be, [you] spirit them away to rehab In the Times of London, advice,” Jenkins writes. “You’ll Few Notre Dame careers were
Beasley first got in trouble over so the world can’t watch, and they D o m i n i c L a w s o n d r a w s a see stern-faced men in managerial stranger or briefer than that of
the weekend, when a Twitter photo can be spared the humiliation of surprising conclusion from the uniforms urging them, in voices Demetrius Jones. Jones started one
he posted displaying a new tattoo being picked apart any further in whole strange affair. “Let men and that crack hoarsely, to ‘Get out game at quarterback for the Irish in
seemed also to reveal a suspicious- public. [This is] a ton of wasted w o m e n — a n d a l l t h o s e there and get it done!’ Mainly 2007, but was displaced as starter
looking baggie in the lower part of resources, breath, and bed space anomalously and uncomfortably you’ll see a lot of grownups acting after a blowout loss and became
the frame whose contents became for a kid whose long-term mental perched in the middle — compete out a central hypocrisy, the the second Fighting Irish
the instant subject of speculation. health — whatever its current state against each other in a single pretense that winning doesn’t quarterback to transfer that year
Later, a series of despairing and — would probably benefit from a championship,” Lawson suggests. matter, while in the stands and on when he headed to Northern
p o s s i b l y s u i c i d a l t w e e t s b y vacation and some trips to a “There would be no requirement t e l e v i s i o n t h e y s c r e a m i n g l y Illiniois. Another transfer and one
Beasley surfaced — on a now- psychologist.” for undignified and distressing demonstrate how much it does shoulder surgery later, Jones has
disabled Twitter account — and The good news for Beasley — genetic testing — only cheats who matter, how much it really, really resurfaced at the University of
Yahoo’s Adrian Wojnarowski besides the fact that he’s young, use drugs to change their bodies matters.”* * * Cincinnati as a first-string
reported that Beasley entered talented, and has a family that would need to fear the men in By most accounts, Hubert H. linebacker. The Cincinnati
t r e a t m e n t i n H o u s t o n f o r cares about him — is that he’s white coats.” Humphrey was a fine man and a Enquirer’s Bill Koch has the
depression and addiction — it’s getting help in the right place. Which um, probably not. true gentleman. Which is a good story.* * *
not known to which substances. Former NBA guard John Lucas Clearly, though, Semenya’s case thing, because enough bad things Your Fixer will be on the road to
Of course, Beasley is at an age has also been a coach in the frustrates reasoning at all kinds of have been said about the Hubert H. Maine by the time Wednesday’s
where mistakes come with the league, but he is best known as a levels. At CBS Sports, Gregg Humphrey Metrodome — the Daily Fix goes live. I’m doing this
territory. Talent and fame separate successful and well-respected Doyel turns to Renee Richards— a baggie-walled, spongy-turfed, because I’m getting married up
him from the many other 20-year- adviser and counselor to addicted male-to-female transsexual who thoroughly bizarre domed baseball there this weekend, not because I
olds making terrible decisions in athletes. In this 1990 Associated played with some distinction on stadium that bears his name in planned to watch any lobster-boat
relative anonymity. But ESPN’s Press article by Hal Bock, Lucas the women’s tennis tour in the Minneapolis — to have destroyed racing. That said, Robert
Henry Abbott notes that Beasley’s tells the story of his own addiction 1970s — for her opinion on the the reputation of a lesser man. In Tomsho’s entertaining
plight is the perhaps inevitable and recovery.* * * matter. He finds the still-sharp, S p o r t s I l l u s t r a t e d , S t e v e examination of a heated rivalry in
result of the confluence between You’ve likely read about Caster s t i l l - p r a c t i c i n g 7 5 - y e a r - o l d Aschburner describes his walking the lobster-boat racing scene in
increasingly public private lives Semenya, the 18-year-old South opthamologist ophthamologist tour of Target Field, the stadium today’s Journal makes me want to
and a relentless sports media. “I African woman whose gold medal spouting various slippery legalisms that will replace the Metrodome in take in a race.
can’t prove it, but I have the in the 800 meters is in doubt while about why Semenya should not be 2010. To say that he noticed the Tomsho’s competitors are Galen
feeling that secrets are getting hard the International Association of allowed to race.* * * contrast between the old and new
to keep in the NBA,” Abbott Athletics Federation tests to see if field does not quite do justice to BEASLEY’S page 60
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New York Mets pitcher Johan Santana to have continued from page 59
Alley and Stevie Johnson. While

surgery, out for season neither is a working fisherman,

they have done much to change
this odd and defiantly local sport.
By Associated Press Santana said he had the same averaged nearly 12 strikeouts per discomfort," Mets pitching coach “Mr. Alley, the circuit’s record
(ESPN.com) operation after the 2003 season nine innings before then but was 6- Dan Warthen said. "If he had ever holder for speed — 64.5 miles per
Submitted at 8/25/2009 6:35:48 PM and came back with a career-high 7 with a 4.02 ERA and averaged said pain, then he would have hour, set earlier this summer —
20 wins and the first of his two Cy 5½ strikeouts after. never, ever thrown. We all go competes in a souped-up fiberglass
Johan Santana To Have Elbow Young Awards for the Minnesota Manager Jerry Manuel said through discomfort." clone of his great-grandfather’s
Surgery Johan Santana To Have Twins. Santana complained of elbow Warthen said the Mets didn't pull boat,” Tomsho writes. “Mr.
Elbow Surgery VIDEO "I know myself," he said. "I've soreness after his last outing, and Santana after the All-Star break Johnson has been trying to beat
PLAYLIST been through this before. I know the team decided to shut him evaluation "because at times it him from behind the steering
• Johan Santana To Have Elbow exactly what it is." down. Santana said his recovery didn't hurt him. It really didn't wheel of a blue Pontiac convertible
Surgery Johan Santana To Have Mets general manager Omar time between starts was mostly bother him." attached to the deck of a sawed-off
Elbow Surgery M i n a y a s a i d S a n t a n a w a s affected. "He was able to pitch a couple cabin cruiser.” The whole piece is
• Buster Blog: Johan Santana evaluated around the All-Star "He felt he could still pitch. He different times," he said. "Then the like that.
Buster Blog: Johan Santana break as his stats dipped, adding wanted to come on the plane and last few, you could see the velocity — Tip of the Fix cap to reader
NEW YORK -- Johan Santana the injury worsened in recent give it a shot," Manuel said before going down, then you really start Don Hartline.
needs surgery for bone chips in his weeks, especially after his last Tuesday night's game at Florida. to concern yourself. Johan never, Found a good column from the
left elbow and the star pitcher is start. The GM said "nothing major "When it gets to the point where ever says anything about his own world of sports? Don’t keep it to
out for the season, the latest blow was there" during the previous he says something, then the red physical pain. Then he actually y o u r s e l f — w r i t e t o u s a t
to a New York Mets team battered checkup. flags went up." finally came clean and said this dailyfix@wsj.com and we’ll
by injuries. "It's mostly soreness," Minaya Santana was put on the 15-day thing really is bugging me." consider your find for inclusion in
The team said their 30-year-old said on a conference call. "We all disabled list and became the 12th Santana had arthroscopic surgery the Daily Fix. You can email
ace is expected to be OK for spring want to see Johan Santana pitching Mets player on the DL, joining on torn cartilage in his left knee David at droth11@gmail.com.
t r a i n i n g n e x t y e a r . H e w a s in September. But this is a smart David Wright, Carlos Beltran, Jose last October, after the season
e x a m i n e d T u e s d a y b y M e t s move because we want to see him Reyes, Carlos Delgado, John ended. He went 16-7 and led the
m e d i c a l d i r e c t o r D r . D a v i d pitching for the long haul." Maine, Putz and others. majors with a 2.53 ERA in his first
Altchek in New York. Santana's The Mets had feared a major The development with Santana year with the Mets. Sources: Mark
Struggles setback to Santana, who has four came on the same day that the The Mets got Santana in a
Johan Santana threw 120 pitches seasons left on his $137.5 million, fourth-place Mets traded reliever F e b r u a r y 2 0 0 8 t r a d e w i t h Sanchez named New
in his 10th start of the 2009 six-year contract. Instead, he will Billy Wagner to the Boston Red M i n n e s o t a .
season, a season-high, against the have arthroscopic surgery. Sox for two players to be named. In other injury news, outfielder York Jets' starting QB
Nationals. Since then, the numbers Santana said that had the Mets Lefty pitcher Pat Misch and first Jeff Francoeur returned to the By ESPN.com news services
have not been good. been in the middle of a pennant baseman-outfielder Nick Evans lineup after tearing a ligament in (ESPN.com)
"It's not the worst," Santana said race, rather than lagging well were recalled from Triple-A his left thumb over the weekend. Submitted at 8/26/2009 7:24:56 AM
on a conference call. "Believe me, below .500, he would've tried to Buffalo. Mets pitcher Oliver Perez,
I'm going to be ready." keep pitching. What began for the Mets as a meanwhile, was had his right knee Sanchez Named Jets Starting QB
The Mets also announced "I didn't want to shut it down," he season with hopes of reaching the evaluated. Manuel said he didn't Sanchez Named Jets Starting QB
Tuesday that reliever J.J. Putz had said. That said, "you don't want to World Series has fallen apart, think the lefty would make his What the football world expected
a setback in his recovery from go out there and blow it and make leaving them out of contention and next scheduled start Friday. became reality Wednesday when
elbow surgery and will miss the it worse." wondering when the next injury "I'm very doubtful," Manuel said. t h e J e t s ' q u a r t e r b a c k s w e r e
rest of the season after an MRI Santana went 13-9 with a 3.13 will occur. "I'm tired of being optimistic." informed that Mark Sanchez is the
revealed "some new fraying and a ERA in 25 starts in his second year On Monday, the Mets said Copyright 2009 by The new starter, team sources
slight tear" in his right forearm. He with the Mets. Strong at the start Santana would be scratched from A s s o c i a t e d P r e s s confirmed to ESPN.
will not need surgery and it is of the season, his numbers had his next scheduled start because Uncharted Territory
merely a preventative measure, the dropped noticeably since June -- his elbow was bothering him. No Jets rookie started the first
team said. he was 7-2 with a 1.77 ERA and "It was never pain. It was game of a season since Dick
Jamieson started the first game in
franchise history in 1960 when the

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Jets were known as the New York
Titans.
The last Jets rookie QB to start a
game was Matt Robinson on Nov.
27, 1977 at home against
Pittsburgh.
So when Sanchez starts in Week
1, he'll do something even Joe
Namath didn't do. Namath made
his first start as a rookie in the Jets'
third game of the 1965 season.
Rookie pass attempts by Jets
QBs drafted in first round:
Sanchez will start the Jets' third
preseason game Saturday night
against the New York Giants--
and, more importantly, the team's
regular-season opener at Houston
against the Texans.
It wasn't a question of if Sanchez
would be named the starter, but
when. Even though he struggled
some against the Baltimore Ravens
on Monday night, the Jets have
seen enough moxie and talent from
Sanchez to make this year's fifth
overall pick the face of the
franchise.
The designation of Sanchez as
the Jets' starter was first reported
by FoxSports.com.
The Jets traded up in the draft to
select Sanchez, who was signed to
a five-year deal that could be
worth up to $60 million, including
$28 million guaranteed.
Vying to become the Jets' starter,
Sanchez, drafted out of Southern
California, got off to a wretched
start Monday night but finished
with a flourish in a 24-23
preseason loss.
Starting for the first time,
Sanchez handed off the ball on the
game's opening play from
scrimmage. Then he forced a pass
while being hit in the stomach by
middle linebacker Ray Lewis. The
ball was intercepted by Haloti
Ngata, who rumbled 25 yards for a
touchdown to make it 7-0 with 52
seconds elapsed.
"Not obviously the way you want
to start. I thought I was doing the
right thing; I felt Ray come free on
the right side from the protection,"
Sanchez said. "I was checking it
down to the flat, perfect. Haloti
just jumped right in front of the
ball and made a really athletic
play."
Sanchez nearly had his second
pass picked off, too. On his final
play, however, he threw his first
NFL touchdown pass -- a 19-
yarder to running back Leon
Washington with 5:50 left in the
second quarter.
Sanchez went 3 for 8 for 43
yards. He didn't experience
success until the Ravens removed
several players from the first-team
defense, including Lewis and
safety Ed Reed.
Jets first-year coach Rex Ryan
spent the previous 10 years
building the Baltimore defense, but
there was no way he could fully
explain to Sanchez the experience
of going up against the wickedly
effective unit.
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"You put a young guy like
Sanchez in there and you see our
defense, it can be difficult," Lewis
said. "You saw his eyes get big,
and he was jumping around in the
pocket. Bottom line: We gave a lot
of looks and disguises and we
confused him a little bit."
To say the least.
"Oh, they were flying. They were
flying around," Sanchez said.
"You practice for it and you see it
on film. These guys were doing it.
You're trying to keep one eye on
Ed Reed and one eye on Ray
Lewis and a D-lineman gets you."
Clemens, who started New
York's other exhibition game, was
5 for 10 for 60 yards. Like
Sanchez, he had an interception
returned for a touchdown and
threw a TD pass (a 28-yarder to
David Clowney in the third
quarter).
Sanchez finally started to move
the offense on his final drive
Monday night. A short pass to
Washington on a third-and-12
went for 16 yards, and a run by
Washington for 15 yards on a third
-and-10 set up the TD pass.
"I'm proud of the way he
responded," Ryan said of Sanchez.
"It ain't going to be perfect;
sometimes you have these type of
nights. You've got to give credit
where credit is due, and most of
that goes to their defense."
Information from ESPN senior
NFL analyst Chris Mortensen,
ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter
and The Associated Press was used
in this report.
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contemporaries Chad Pennington
and David Garrard fall on the
conservative side of the spectrum
in all four categories.
In a separate post on the same
blog, Chase Stuart unveiled all-
time quarterback rankings.
Manning and Rivers both have
some work to do to crack the top
50. Rivers is ranked 65th and Eli
Manning doesn’t crack the top 75;
his brother, Peyton Manning, ranks
second, behind Joe Montana.
Peyton is similar to Eli in
personality type, by the way,
except Peyton’s better at
completion percentage than yards
per attempt.

The Count: Rivers and Manning, Compatible Personalities

(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix) playoff appearances, but no Super completing a high percentage of each category, with several being
Submitted at 8/25/2009 1:36:04 PM Bowl appearances. their throws for touchdowns than bunched near the middle.
Now here’s another piling up yards per attempt, while Nevertheless, each is put in one
Philip Rivers and Eli Manning commonality between the two Pro yard eaters are their counterparts. group or the other, regardless of
have a lot in common. Both Bowl quarterbacks: They’re both And gamblers avoid sacks but risk the magnitude.”
quarterbacks were selected among Bomber-Fun-Vulture Gamblers. interceptions, while holders are That’s from his post explaining
the top four picks of the 2004 NFL That’s the quarterback personality more willing to take the sack. his methods; the second post gets
draft. Both have led their teams to type assigned to them by Pro Some caveats, in Lisk’s own right to the good part, grouping
the playoffs the last three seasons. Football Reference’s Jason Lisk, words: “We know that Joe passers by personality type.
And each QB signed a six-year who broke down quarterback QBs are better at tossing Montana was better than Jack Manning and Rivers fall on the
contract extension in the offseason attributes into four sliding scales. touchdowns than avoiding Trudeau; here, we are looking at risky side of average in each of the
worth nearly $100 million. Getty QBs who are better at amassing interceptions; safe quarterbacks where Montana (or Trudeau) was four categories. By contrast, their
Images yards per attempt than a high avoid pickoffs better. Vulture relatively better and worse. Also,
Philip Rivers’s gunslinging has completion rate are Bombers; their quarterbacks are better at passers are going to fall
led the Chargers to three straight counterparts are Completers. Fun somewhere along the spectrum in COUNT: page 61